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1—Photo-dlagrum of route of army round-the-world aviators, .Major Martin, commander of the flight, and one of the planes. 2— High mass In Luneta park, Manila, to celebrate second anniversary of coronation of Pope Pius XI. 3—The “little green house\ In Washington where Attorney General Daugherty and his friends are said to have arranged deals. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Wheeler Digging Up Lots of Stuff Against Daugherty— Oil and 1920 Campaign. By EDW ARD W . PICKARD S O comprehensive, discursive and “far flung\ are the various inves tigations In Washington that only the Congressional Record could do them Justice In the matter of space. In the Daugherty Inquiry Senator Wheel er Is having the time of his life and the witnesses, willing and reluctant, are numerous. Of these witnesses per- Qaps the most Interesting of the week was W. A. Orr, one time secretary of Governor Whitman of New York. From him was drawn a story of con spiracy to withdraw liquor from bond In which Howard Mannington, a close associate of Daugherty, played the part of “fixer\ and Orr that of “ col lector.” He also admitted that he had a share In the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film and wns supposed to have helped arrange things so that it could be exhibited free from prosecution. Orr acknowledged that he had used his influence to Induce the attorney general to appoint Col. William Hay ward ns United States district attorney In New York, but modestly disclaimed credit for having \put over\ Hay ward’s appointment. Further evidence concerning the fight film deal wns given by G. O. Holdridge, former Department of Jus tice detective, involving Dnugherty, Orr, Alfred R. Urlon, Jap Mumn, New York representative of E. B. McLean’s publications, Fred Quimby and others, and Senator Wheeler declnred the evi dence wns conclusive of the existence of n conspiracy. William J. Burns de nies the implications drawn from Hold- ridge’s story so far as they affect the honesty of the Department of Justice. T HE Teapot Dome committee heard a sensational story linking Harry Sinclnir up with the financing of the last Republican presidential campaign and related to the reports that oil in terests, after vninly trying to ensnare General Wood, brought about the nom ination of Harding. According to the Information received by the committee, Sinclnir turned over to Will Hays and Harry Dnugherty 75,000 shares of stock in his oil companies which was to be sold and the proceeds employed In liquidation of the inillion-dollar def icit Incurred by the Republican na tional committee under the chairman ship of Mr. Hays in the 1020 election. A subpoena was issued for Mr. Ilavs. Tiffin Gilmore of Ohio related a lot of hearsay about the futile attempt to deal with Wood, nnd Carnd Thompson wns called to tell what he knew about it From brokers’ books the oil commit tee learned that these men traded In various oil stocks between Dec. 1, 1021, and Dec 31, 1022: Attorney General Daugherty; f\ Rnscom Slemp, secre- tar\ to the President; Senators Curtis of Kansas and Elkins of West Vir ginia ; Representatives A. B. Rouse of Kentucky, and former Representatives Goodykoontz of West Virginia. T. J. Ryan of New York and J. H. Himes of Ohio. B RIBERY changes against two mem bers of the lower house having been laid before a grand jury in Wash ington, the special house committee appointed to investigate them is holding its sessions in secret in order not to prejudice the interests of the -government or of the possible defend ants. Among the witnossis hoard have been the cashiers of four banks In the home town of Congressman Zihlman of Maryland. Y ET another committee, of the sen ate, is investigating allegations of inefficiency and irregularities in the bureau of internal revenue Assist ant Commissioner C. R. Nash told it that in the last three years The, rev enue agents, inspectors and deputy collectors had been discharged because of dishonesty and graft. Commission er Blair denied fthat appointment of vrincinal employees in the bureau has been controlled by political consider ations and told of his difficulties in that line with former Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury Elmer Dover. B Y an overwhelming majority the house passed the new soldiers' bonus bill, and sent It on to the senate. That body will almost certainly pass either the house bill or an amended measure. What President Coolldge will do about it is not surely known. The vote In the house— 355 to 54— in sures the passage of the bill over a veto. It is not so certain that the necessary two-thirds vote can be ob tained In the senate. Advocates of the measure are urging the senate finance committee to give the hill precedence over the tax bill now under consideration. Regardless of the merits or demerits of the bonus bill, there is ground for criticism of the way in which it wns jammed through the house. The rules were suspended so that all amend ments were shut out and debate wns limited. The representatives who voted for the bill undoubtedly have thus provided themselves with a strong argument for their re-election, what ever may be the flnnl fate of the meas ure. T HE senate went on record in fa vor of another amendment to the Constitution by adopting the joint res olution to have presidents Inaugurated on the third Monday in January and the new congress to take office on the first Monday in January after election. Only seven votes were cast against it. The resolution was Introduced by Sen ator Norris, who thus explained it: \First—The congress elected In No vember will go into office on the first Monday in January following, and a session will then begin. This means that the new congress won’t have to wait thirteen months before its mem bers are actually sworn into office. This means the abolishment of the so-called ‘lame duck congress.’ The old congress will have no session after the election. “ Second— It abolishes the existing short session. Under present consti tutional provisions a congress assem bles In December after election and runs until the fourth of March, when it expires by limitation. It Is in this so-called ‘short session’ of congress that all kinds of jokers creep into the laws. \Third—Under the present Constitu tion, if the people fail to elect a Pres ident, nnd the election is thrown into the house, it is the old repudiated con gress that elects the President, and not the new. This amendment will reverse conditions.\ I NCOMPLETE returns from the North Dakota primary show that Mr. Coolidge was the winner of the Republican indorsement, with Senators Johnson nnd LaFollette running neck and neck for second place. Nortli Carolina's delegation to the Cleveland convention was instructed for Coolidge. McAdoo won a big victory over Sen ator Underwood in Georgia, the re turns making It certain that he will lin\e the state’s 28 votes in the New York convention. To his close friends in Washington Senator LaFollette Is said to have ad mitted that he desires to run for President this year on a third ticket, lie wants to be nominated, not by a brand new third party, but by a con vention of Independent Republicans to be held after the convention in Cleveland has nominated Coolidge and to which members of all parties will be admitted. It Is asserted that be has no hope of being elected next November but believes Ills plan would smash the regular Republican pnrtj. result in a Democratic \h-tory nnd open the way for a third party that would be the leading party of the na tion four years hence. Of course all this may be mere political gossip. TV/TAJOR M A R T IN nnd Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, the army's globe-circling aviators, who started from Clover field, Santa Mon ica, Cal., have flown their four planes as far ns Seattle without accident. There the machines are being equipped with largo pontoons for what >s re garded as the hardest part of the trip— from the United States to Japan by Wf»' °f Alaska and the Aleutian islands. This week a British aviator is to start from • Southampton in an attempt to bent the Americans around the world. He will fly from west to east. O F MORE than local Interest Is the sule of the New York Herald by Frank Munsey to the New York Tribune, for\ a price said to be in the neighborliod of 54.000,000. The Herald has gone out of existence after a life of elglity-nine years. The combined papers are now called the New York Ilernld-Tribune. Mr. Munsey sold be cause be could not buy the Tribune. He says the amalgamation was in evitable for economic reasons. S IR ESME HOWARD, the new Brit ish ambassador, made his first public address at a dinner of the Pil grim society in New York. The most important of his utterances was this: \An altitude of complete aloofness and lack of interest in the affairs of the other white continent cannot be wholesome for either of the two. I cannot but believe that America will unquestionably feel the Impulse to work, In her own way and in her own time, for permanent peace in Europe, on which, to put it on no higher grounds, so much of her own - pros perity depends. We In England have long ngo realized that a policy of ‘splendid isolation' was but an idle dream and a vain imagining.\ I N AN important statement dealing primarily with the definite abandon ment of the Singapore naval base project, Prime Minister MacDonald told parliament that the British gov ernment would do nothing to encour age the new race for armaments. He pointed out that the government stands for a policy of international co-opera tion through a strengthened and en larged League of Nations, settlement of disputes by conciliation and judi cial arbitration, and the creation of conditions which will make a compre hensive agreement on the limitation of armaments possible. G ENERAL DAWES’ commission of experts, it is now said, will not report until April 3. The German elections are set for May 4 and those of France for May 11, nnd presumably there will be no decision ns to accept ance of the report until the results of those elections are known. Bears in the franc market, especially hanks in Zurich. Amsterdam and Vi enna, are in difficulties because they were caught short In the great squeeze resulting from the support that Mor gan and Lazard of London gave the Bnnk of France. The latter institu tion bought all the francs offered and refuses to settle, demanding actual delivery. T HE Chinese government has re fused to ratify an agreement\ with Russia which was signed by its repre sentative and has ordered the soviet envoy to leave Peking because he wrote insulting notes to the foreign office. Moscow, therefore, has broken off the negotiations for a peace trenty. The situation is considered dangerous and correspondents say civil uar In Chinn is likely to break out again. The Chinese also are having disputes with Japan concerning the Shantung railway and two Japanese naval squad rons are in Chinese waters. D OW'S in Honduras, where a revolu tionary movement has been colng on for some time, the rebels hn\e won a series of battles with the forces of Generals Arias and Busso, wh., as sumed dictatorial powers nfr< r the death of President Guiterrez, and have occupied Tegucigalpa, the capit d and all the ports There wns wild dborder In the capital and the American min ister;; asked for protection, so a land ing force from the cruiser Milwaukee was rushed to the city from Amapala. G r o v e r C l e v e l a n d DOLL, the draft evader, sn\s he will soon return to America un'/.ndl- tionally nnd stand trial for draft eva sion, plendlng guilty. But he already Is under sentence for desertion and presumably must serve five year« for that offense if he comes hack. <; \v. Powell, director of the Americaniza tion commission of the American Le gion, says the legion has guaranteed the persona’ safety of Bergdoli if he will return and take his medicine. News of Montana Brief Notes Concerning vtke, Treasure State Double Tracking on the G. N. — With in the next two weeks,, it is expected, 200 men will be at work on the con struction of the 16 miles of double track for the Great Northern between Havre and Lohman. The contract for the work was let to the A. Guthrie company of St. Paul and Superintendent Bartlett is already on hand to start the work. Four steam shovel outfits will arrive in Havre this week, it is expected. The Guthrie bid for the work was approximately $200.- b00. Fuglevnnd & Sundberg of Havre have contracted a portion of the con crete work and Neut & Baker have sub-contracted some of the team work. Fifty men of the regular building and bridge crews are at work at pres ent on the new fuel oil plant in the yards and concrete work for the new turntable is practically completed. Surplus Corn Sold. —Figures from the elevator at Winnett show that so far this winter 2S,SS6 bushels of corn have been marketed, with an estimated value of more than $15,000. This rep resents the surplus corn raised in that section and does not take into consid eration what 1ms been used for feed and the amount being kept on the farms for seed. A number of large ranches In the Flatwillow country are buying large quantities of corn to feed their stock for the May market. This Is the first time this practice has been adopted in central Montana. It Is stated that sheep fed on corn produce wool that brings a better price, and raise better lambs. Epidemic of Measles. — An epidemic of measles threatens to close the Browning schools. In one day recently the school physician made 13 calls at homes of the sick and tacked up nine quarantine cards. It is reported that there are 33 children out of the pri mary room all reported with measles. Fallow Acres Reduced. —Richland county’s 14,000 summer fallow acres In 1022 fell to 11,000 In 1023. II. F. DePew, Richland county agent, can see the answer In that the corn acre age jumped 16,000 acres in that period. Deerslayer Jailed. — Because lie killed deer out of season nnd possessed illegally killed venison, H. It. Gilbert, a rancher from Echo Lake, wns fined $100 nnd in addition will serve 50 days in the county jail. Over the Great Divide Pioneers of fortv veers ntfo, er more who have come to the eoi of the trail BILLM A N — News 1ms been received of the death of Mrs. Sarah Ellen Bill- man, at the Woods ranch near Big Timber. She was 74 years old, nnd a native of Galena, III., At the age of 14 the family removed to St. Louis. In 1 n 5G she was married to Oapt. Joseph Wright and they started for Montana in April, 1SG7. IN 1884 Mrs. Wright was married to Andrew Blllmnn and moved to the Yellowstone, where Mr. .Billnmn lmd a homestead three miles west of Livingston. In 1909 they sold the old home and went to Cascade, then to Hamilton where they lived tintil August. 1923, coming to make their home with their children, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Woods. TRIPPET—Judge W. II. Trlppet, city attorney of Anaconda and a pi oneer lawyer of Montana, died at his home in Anaconda, death being due to a general breakdown Incident to Ills advanced years. He was 76 years old. He came to Montana In 1SS2, first lo cating in Deer Lodge nnd in that city carried on a law practice for about 15 years, after which he removed to Ana conda. Surviving relatives are his wife, Mrs. Harriet M. Trlppet; his daughter, Mrs. Ethel Roark, of Spokane, and his son. W. T\. Trlppet of Whitefish. Mont. BUCKNER—John Buckner, Mon tana pioneer, nnd well known contrac tor. died at Billings, March 22, of the infirmities due to old age. He was 70 years old, having come to Montana in 1873. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1854, and married Augusta Barfunl at Helena. Site survives him. Those who survive him are: Mrs. John Buckner. Billings: II. F. Buckner. Redwood Falls. Minn., and P. F. Buckner of St. Paul, his half-brothers; Mrs. Henry Sierk of St. Louis; Mrs. Isaac Small of Redwood Falls, nnd Mrs. Denny Swan of Million, Minn., his half-sisters. SEIDENSTICKER— Death has tak en another honored pioneer of Madi son county, John Christian Seiden- sticker, who died from an apoplectic stroke at his home near Twin Bridges. Mr. Seidenstieker was horn 78 years ago in Schleswig-Holstein. Prussia, and came to the United States at the age of 10. For a time he lived in Ohio, coming west 48 years ago. In Montana he developed large ranch interests. He is survived by his wife, three sons arid three daughters. Place Many Babies.—The Montana Children’s Home society at Billings, has placed 282 children !n good family homes during the past year, which brings the total of wards placed out since the society’s inception to 2,300, said the Rev. Arthur D. Sloate, super intendent of the Billings district, upon ms return from the enstern part of the state where he has been finding suit able homes for children. \The society has more applications for children from one to three years n f age than it can supply,” said Mr. Sloate.” M U D ' SUESnino DRWEfl FOD DAMAGE Freight Car Gets W o rst of It in Col- lision; F lain tiff Sues for Repairs There have been thousands of in stances in which a railroad company was made defendant in a suit for dam ages, but at last there has arisen a suit in which a railroad company Is the plaintiff in a damage action— and all because of the alleged fact that in a collision between an automobile nnd a freight car the freight car gol the worst of it. In district court the Groat Northern Railroad company has brought suil against Stewart Johnson. According to the complaint filed by Veazey, CHfi & Glover, Johnson ran his automobile Into a freight train of the Great North ern nnd hit one of the cars in the train with sufficient force to put 11 out of commission. - Damages amounting to $5S.46 for re pairs to the car are asked and the cost to the railroad of having the car out oi commission und service is estimated al a dollar a day for 12 days, making the total $70.46. The accident, it Is alleged, took place near Great Falls. State Capital N E W S . M GAME COM M ISSIO N TO BRING C A RTR ID G E S TO M O NTANA A STATE warrant in the sum o f $8,9GS.7o drawn against the fislr and game fund has been forwarded to New York to provide Immediate funds for the purchase of n large shipment of Hungarian partridges for stocking the hunting grounds of Montana witlv game birds. The warrant was drawn in favor of Julius Loewortli, Importer through whom the birds are being, purchased. The warrant is in payment for 1.02;; pairs of the Hungarian partridges which were ordered by the fish anc game commission last November and’ which are expected to arrive in New York from Europe about the muldlc- of April. | The shipment will be handled on its- arrival in New York by tiie Americar- Game Protection association, which*-- will examine and check the birds, pay for them, and see that they are re shipped by express to Montana. This will be the third importation- of partridges for the Montana fish and game commission, the first, ir w22, consisting of 1.0S0 pairs, and the- Land Bills Out of Committee Measures introduced in the lowej house of congress and known as H. R 4319 and 3756, relating to the setting aside of certain portions of the Fort Keogh reservation for the Miles City park and the Custer county fair ground, have been reported out of thf public lands committee. The bill alsc provides for the transfer of the Fpn Keogh property from the interior tc the agricultural department to be con verted by the latter into a government agricultural experiment statVn. Miles Obtains Recruit Station About April 1 nn army recruiting office will be opened at Miles City, II was announced by Colonel C. F. An drews of Helena, officer In charge oi thp district. Colonel Andrews has opened a recruiting station at Sheri dan, Wyo. Absaroka Oil company will complete test of the Ten Mile structure, 20 miles east of Billings, which was started bj former State Senator T. S. Hogan anc W. M. Fulton of Great Falls, accord ing to announcement made last week Ly Senator Hogan, who stopped ovei in Billings en route from the Kevin Sunburst field - to Denver. Contraci for completion of the well gives tc the Absaroka company leases on approximately 4,000 acres on the structure, and a quantity of casing which awaits transportation to tlu well from the station at Ballnntine Drilling will be started just as soor ns weather conditions permit. The Ohio Oil company’s Baker No. 3 near Great Falls, Is the marvel of Mon tana, according to Gene Gerlough, geol oglst for the Potlach Oil company which holds a half Interest in the Baker lease. This well has producer more oil in 165 days than it shoulc have produced in its entire lifetime were it a well regulated, ordinary sort of nn oil well. The Baker No. 3 has produced 160,000 barrels of oil in 16? days, an average of nearly 1,000 bar rels a day. The spacing of the well.* In this area of the Kevin-Sunburs- field is one to every eight acres. The exact thickness of the oil formntior is variable. The Dry Forks well, three mile.' north of Conrad, has struck a heavj flow of fresh water at ¿700 feet, anc this strike, along with the strong In dications of oil that have been presen* for some time, is considered by geolo gists and those in charge of operation; as a most encouraging indication thn* oil will he struck In the very neai future. The hole is now down to t depth of nearly 2,700 feet nnd drilling operations are being conducted jus* as rapidly as possible, two crews work ing steadily all the time. H. N. Kistner. field superintended for the Black Hawk Oil company if busily engaged In renewing leases or the Black Hawk acreage on Flat Wil low. preparatory to resuming opera tions. Mr. Kistner contends that the Black Hawk Is but 100 feet off pro ductlon and that when he has hif lenses in shape it will not take long to hit the pay. Drilling for oil on the Laurel struc ture by the I’ennsylvanin-Kentuckj Oil & Gasoline Refining corporation oi Wheeling, W. Yn„ will he In progress within the next two weeks, accord in c to plans just disclosed. A standard steel rig has been shipped from Cas per. Wyo.. nnd advices received al Laurel state that work will start Ap ril 1st. Boys Catch Mountain Lion Wallace and Chester Campbell, with Frank Hong, Donlison nnd Cecil But ler. of Wise River, recently went hunt ing. Wallace had set out traps foi coyotes nnd when he went to look at them, he found one gone, with thf chain broken. The hoys followed the tracks mntil they heard Hoog’s dog barking. When they caught up with the dog they found he had treed n mountain lion. Wallace shot the nni- mnl, which fell from the tree. The lion weighed over 150 pounds and measured seven feet from tip to tip second in 1923, cbnsisting of 416 pairs These were liberated in various parts- of the state and according to reports- received by the commission are In creasing rapidly. The partridges are protected by state law nnd will be so protected un til they reach such numbers as to war rant their being hunted. T A X E S R E Q U IR E D FOR COUNTY AND SCHOOL PURPOSES I N 27 counties of Montana the total1 amount which the taxpayers were required to provide for general county and school purposes wns more for the year 1923 than for 1924, according to figures compiled by the state board' of equalization. In 26 counties less money wns taken from the taxpayers to finance the requirements of thr county, the school districts and to give- the state its share of 3% mills. There- are no comparisons for Lake county, newly created, and Garfield county's- figures have not been reported. The actual amount levied Is believed1 to he the only accurate gauge as to- whether county nnd school adminis trative costs are increasing or de creasing for the taxable valuation, which is 30 per cent of the assessed1 valuation, or the mill levy Itself can be juggled almost at will. Thus, it is- pointed out, county officials some times announce a credit for having re duced expenses when, as a matter o f fnct. their actual amount levied against the taxpayers is greater on the same,, or perhaps a less population ,tlian the- vear previous. In nrriving at the taxable value per acre of land, the value was found by taking irrigated, dry farming, grazing, nnd all other agricultural lands and’ reducing same to an average for the- count.v. SUPREM E CO URT H E A R IN G ON C O UNTY SEAT C O NTEST T HE Montana supreme court has; declined to dismiss the appeal on behalf of Poplar. Mont., In its contro versy with W olf Point ns to which-, place will be county seat of Roose velt county. ^ Ruling on motions re cently argued, the court approved the- undertaklngs on appeal of ,T. L. Atkin son on behalf of Poplar; ordered con solidated the appeal from the lower court’s order dissolving the injunction nnd the nppenl from the judgment o f the lower court: continued in force the Injunction forbidding the moving o f the county records from Poplar to- Wolf Point pending final determina tion of the case providing the appel lant files a bond of $4,000 by April 5- gave the appellnnt until Mn.v 5 to file- the transcript of appeal, which may he- typewritten Instead of printed; and gave the appellnnt until May 15 and the respondent until May 31 to file- briefs. The court set .Tune 0, next, ns the date on which arguments will be beard on the merits of the case. f i r s t o f S c h o o l b o n d s SIG NED BY GOVERNOR G OVERNOR Dixon, Attorney Gener al Rankin nnd Secretary of State Stewart have affixed their signatures to the first of the $550,000 issue o f state school bonds, sale of which to- the Montana Trust nnd Savings bank was made possible by a recent supreme court ruling. The remainder of the issue will be delievered In the next few days, providing no further objec tions are raised by the purchasers, who have held up the transaction for several months nn the advice of a New York bond attorney. FILE S AS C A N D ID A T E FOR DEM O CRATIC CO N V E NTIO N J BURKE CLEMENTS, vice chair- • man of the Democratic state cen tral committee has filed a petition with the secretary of state as a can didate for delegate to the Democratic- national convention. Mr. Clements declares for McAdoo. As vice chairman of the state com mittee in 1922, he was director of pub licity for the committee, serving ac tively at state headquarters. GOOD R E A P P O IN T E D TO H IG H V /A Y COM M ISSIO N G OVERNOR Joseph M. Dixon has: announced the appointment o f Henry Good of Kalispell to succeed himself as assistant highway com missioner for a three year term start ing April 1, next. Governor Dixon re marked that with Good and O. S. War den of Great Falls on the commission, a majority of that board is Democratic- In political faith. ‘I 4 «> % »!
