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T H E : :M O J5I TA ÎJï A]^. ;§ Pabüfh«d Evory ¿Friday Evening at Choteau\ , fcheteau Col, .Montana..,. ,;t~ . S. M. CORDON, Editor. ~ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1892. A gain are we constrained to apeak of the special road tax andJ •ome. other facts connected* with xeadi in this section. Hoad super. Yisor Steele is receipt of a com: munication from Attorney Gener al Haskell giving his construction of the law defining the duties’ of road supervisors and what is re quired of the persons who are liable to special road tax. The opinion reads: “ That it is the duly of the road supervisor to notify eaoh taxpayer within his district to turn out on a certain day and work one day on the road bringing with him his tools, or to send a • aubstitute. In the event of said taxpayer refusing to work after three such notifications the supervisor shall notify the county Treasuser o f the retusal to work and the propeity of the delinquent shall be liable for the $3 special tax, or, if the party have no assessable property the supervisor shall take proceedings against the delinquent in justice’s court and he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more * than $10 and costs.” This makes it plain* that the entire special road tax was intended to be ex pended on the roads of the dis trict where the taxpayer resides, and that the pay of .the supervisor and expenses for^material was to come from the general road fund of the county. It takes the question of whether or no the special tax shall be collected thus and so entirely out of the com missioners hands and places it in that of the supervisor. If the supervisor can find no work on the roads in his district for the people to do, then the people are relieved from said tax, providing they are willing to work when called upon. While our roads are sadly in need of repair and every person liable to the special tax willing to work or send someone as a substitute, the commissioners have ordered no work done ex cept upon their special order. This o f course will relieve us of our roads, if persisted in. It is the duty of everyone to hare the tax expended on the roads of his dis trict and not to pay the money into the county treasury. The general road fund from this dis trict is more than sufficient so pay the supervisor without drawing upon that paid by any other district and we can see no reason why the work should not proceed. “ Eviden tly something is rotten somewhere* Somebody is wrong, but who?” , A bill lias been introduced in congress providing that that body shall meet in March instead of thirteen months after it is elected. Push it through. L orenzq D ow was accredited with ■ in almost¿supernatural powers certain linès. Once, whén*' the ax had:bèën stolen from the' School house-where -he was to preach, Lorenzo took with him into the primatiye pulpit, a good sized . cobble stone which he deposited upon the table before'him while delivering.his sermon. Of course everybody wondered at the stone until the service was completed, when the gray haired itenerant explained that the ax with which the wood for the fire was to have been cut was stolen and as the thief was there present he had brought the stoue with him for the purpose of knocking the cul prit on the head, believing that a man who would steal an ax from a church deserved death.* At this he made as if to hurl the stone, when to his surprise as well as that of several others, a man who occupied a front seat and who stood high among the church officials, dodged so perceptibly that everyone present noticed it. Of course it was patent to every eye who stole the axr Lorenzo had no idea who the guilty party was, blit the man did. So. he winced •< and gave himself away. An honest man never winces when “ some, thing is lotten somewh ere.or somebody is wrong, but who?” T he annual report of the super intendent of the census, just pub lished, shows that the total dis bursements on account of the eleventh census from the com mencement ot operations up to June 80, 1892, amounted to $8,- 203,693.32. Some of the items which constituted this total were as follows: Pay of enumerators, $2,485,458; census proper, $663,562; printing and stationery, $631,686; farms, home, and mortgaaes in quiry, $1,006,771; manufactures, $640.379. In July, 1891, there wore 1,330 clerks on the rolls; in June last there were 1,214. By the close of the present calendar year Mr. Porter, the superinten dent, hopes to have nearly the whole o f the manuscripts of all final reports except four in the hands of the public printer. There are thirteen volumes to be publish ed, and of this number eight quarto volumes are now in the hands of the printers. * T he moving of the World’s Fair souvenir half-dollars across the country will be a tremendous un dertaking. The coins will weigh in the neighborhood of forty five tons, which is five or six time the capacity of any ordinary express car. If these coin’s were piled up like cord-wood they would occupy a cubic space of about 1,200 feet. There is such a dead weight to silver that the-express companies are seldom able to carry more than $2501000 to $300,000 on a car and the maximum amout is $500, 000. A t this rate it would require a train o f eight or ten cars to move the souvenir coins, if they are transported in bulk. - . \ i i S E S SBSSS BOBÜ ' ' *^,V. ^ , V ' BSS9EE9EE9MI T he telegram ,_8eritr£6jufc ’¿from Fort Benton that; “Die- editor 7of T he M ontanian purged\himself ot contempt, by apologizing' ter til® judge” , was wholy without;founds atioa. Mr.- Oorgon denied the charge of contempt and to siib-, •tantinte his denial' offered ^ a witne» , then sitting in' the jury, box. The court perplexedly scratched.its head a moment, than his honor said: “ The court requires no further, proof; it believe« what you say and will not call the wit ness. You are dismissed. You may go.” But we have contempt for the author of that telegram. T he populi«i;{^d^..an',d£iojieaja.- county at the>recentgeneral.elec-- tion was-nearly^four, per; ¿cent of the totaL voteg. T ^party^had no organization- whatever—¿ iik , the. . county, and but 1 l ! tie campaigning was done there ‘ a nd; \that ‘ under ;- ‘ great difficulties.—The.¿ge. - T here fs nothing published inTast* Sunday’s Tiide pendent that a horrible, beast had; been «ent from Freezeotit ;~a%jfc present' ‘ to' ; Grover; v Cleveland. Cleveland gets- no . chri»tma» présent from the people of Freez out, this year. ' . ; ' . A*' . j I n round numbers, the vote for Cleveland will, foot up about 6, 750.000, and for, Harrison, 6,500,j 000. The populists, prohibitionists and socialists together polled 1,- 300.000. Cleveland has no ma jority ot the popular vote, but only a plurality of some 250,000 over Harrison. This is a less plurality than that of Buchanan over Fre mont. Lincoln over Douglas, Lin coln over McClellan, Grant^Ver Seymour, and Grant over Greely. C leveland ’ s postmastei general will have to remove 50 postma«: ters per day for four years if he_ expects to get them all out during his administration; one hundred per day, if in two years, and 200 per day will let them out in one year. Big job any way he doe» ill r ' r v. . ■■ ■■ * I i ■ W hat has come over the spirit of the aditors of the two Great Falls dailies? Neither has men tioned the other for a week past, and yet the world wags on—the better for it. Y es , somebody was wrong,. and we think the court knows it now. If it don’t, everybody else doer, the Bridge Company included^. H ope springs eternal in... the - breast of the holder o f confederate bond« in England. , It is. many * ^ long year since we have heard anything from him, but he i» again inquiring about * his prospect«:--1 \\ Pioneer Press. - . - '-\r*\ “ r ' --- J * -• '«V * T he time for killing ~gamd ,i».. * about to expire, say» an exchahvgb. It might as well Kaye adde'd, ;that, the game of killing time was play- - ed out, “ Tetonl C hoteau II BEAR PA WII T he hand writing on the wall,” i» the way the Chinook- Opinion puts it. , ^ ..... A ccording t6 . the . 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