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Geyser Judith Basin Times (Geyser, Mont.), 05 March 1915, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn85053135/1915-03-05/ed-1/seq-1/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
: ..••••••• ••••••ss'ss.s.. s . s..s.... VOL. 5. ORM \\\\\th f ,/ ‘ es Oleo: •-s-ad.• --esse• - - trglatiail;1 --\---i•see•- . • .\.'• '7 11 ; ••.. . - • • ••••<., . s • _ •. „ ---talla\•sz • -- -..‘tet•;••\/ ; ?(4' ' k_ JO, et '• ;I. 4'. •• GEYSER, MONT., MARCH 5, 1915 • NO. 4 Sad Accident Occurs at Transformer Stanford An accident occurred Sunday that has east a shadow of gloom over ou. entire little city, when NV. A. Seibert an electrician in the employ of tle Montana Power Co., was caught undei a falling tore and crushed so that lit. was extinct Lti about an hour after th accident. Ralph Knight, one of Geyser's youm men, was assisting at the station ale also fell receiving a bad gash over th. eye. The cause of the accident is really on known, for every pieeaution had bee, taken to make the work of placing th heavy tranaformer in position as gat. as possible. 0. M. Sherman and Ralph Knight were working near the top o the transformer while Mr. Seibert wa• on the ground wheh, it is preautnee some cog slipped allowing the weigh of the heavy transformer to fall on th cable with a alight jerk, causing th cable to break and the tranaformei weighing about 2 ton came down anti. fell over striking Mr Seibert, who WK on the ground but unable to get on of the way, crualliag him terribly. At first the osktookera thought 1111 Seibert was killed outright, but afte working over the \tnfortunate there were slim e of 4, but altho med- ical aid was an the *round in a fe% momenta all realised the only hope wa to get him to a hospital where he migh have a resume to recovers' Ralph Knigt was on a platform help ng to drew the core to plass and when it gave way If!. Knight was throwr head long about 12 feet to the ground. causing a bad wash over his eye and re• relying a bad shaking Up. The accident happened about 11 A. M.. About the time the morning pai- • , \'aitet - bcitett. fur the Pats came in ..v3 .,-both hoYst, were ptit aboard the train, accompanied by Dr. Brant and James Kernaghan. Mr. Seibert never regained couns• '•siisness but breathed his last between Belt and Gerber. William Seibert was the son of A. E. eibert of Minneapoli, and had been\ with the Montana Power Co for the past four years. He was considered a %ery careful workman and those who worked wit'l him have nothing bat the beet to say of him. He hal been in Gev• ser has than a week but during this time had made many friends who regret Gaylord Fliteroft o know of his early demise. Ile n as Grady about 25 years of age and a young in \ Henderson excellent habits. Upon arriving in Great Falls the body :va s turned over to Undertaker treon- or. W. D. Madden was notified but iter examination it was decided an in- s itiest was unnecessary. The parents and elati‘ es were notified by telegram of he accident and they wired imam.- , lone to have the body shipped to Min- leapolis. The body wan shipped Monday after- Joon at 2:30 after a short funeral see: ice held at 1:30 at the D'Conner chapel, :here hundreds of employees of the • butane Power company gathered to oily their last respects to a beloved and spected companion.Services were dulucted by Rev. Virgil Scott and 4. ieeisl music was rendered by Harry htvidaon accompanied by Mrs. David ‘raig. Officers from Butte as well an 'leet Falls attended the casket hidden vith flowers as an honorary escort to he depot, where the body wa s forward• d to Minneapolis for burial. The carers were Frank Hadley, G. A. Cal - ha n, J. T. Gray, Pat McCarty, John 'obieh and Edward Scott. Ralph Knight is tit son of Mr. and Ire. F. G. Knight of Geyser and a oung man of sterling qualitie s and all a Geyser will rejoice with his parents and brother s when Ralph is seen on oin .:treetet again. He will receive treat - vent at the rolundma hospital for a 14 0:•eek or ten di vs when it is hoped by many friend, he will return uienod lealth. F. ft Knight, Ralph's father, went to the Falls on the next train and was with Ralph until Monday a (femoral and left him as vornfortable as could be ezpeeted. Geyser Wins Handily Last Saturday night the Stanford team of basket ball players met Hie local team on the Geyser floor and the yisiting team lost out by tau poi li ta. It was a niest exciting game, if not altogether scientific. The pies eisill get a little over anxious to win so play- ed a more strenuous game than really it.,s-4-.41 Th.- line up was ;i s follows: Linnet». Messer. Grady and Litmane were the . stars Ii ins the Stanford team, doing sums' good work, while the others eausial it number or foul s and holding their opponente seemed to be a part of ;he game. This ass Geyser first game and then with it picked rip team many of which had bit little experience. ,SO it was with I fear and trembling that they took their plaits against a train that had played several games this season. Cut as the r,fitine progressed the Geyser boys rea• live, that they had the goods and could di] vet' it . %Vitt le till . IlllyS did good »ink, Bel halt Was the star rif the evening, task- ing 15 points out of the 17 made. Tiw score Was 15 to 17 in favor of Position Geyser It. F. Lamm 1.. I:. Belnap 4'. Greenly 11 Proper I.. Skelton Geyser. Mr. Childs of Great Falls , refereed. ! A return game will be played at Stanford next Saturday night, and it is opes' a number from Geyser will at. ..tend and by rooting stimulate the boys to do their best. How to Make Money Of all the men engaged in butanes. the Ininker s have the best opportunito ti know what the conditions will be , and to offer advice on what is the best methods of making money. This ic I t Me hIS•itil\te the 11)41 /1,y a ti ; t kit is thr true pulse of erinditione in general. Working along this line attention Is called to the following article recently ,,pubbehed in the Conuneecial West and ! brought to notice be • Frank Meredith, 0 .ite4lier of the Firee National bank: \No need to be much of a seer or prophet to fore-aee tlie tremendous de mend the world will make on America for food supplie during the next year tor two. The problem in how to meet :the demand. The high price of wheel now ruling end likely to prevail for isome time will boost the wheat acre• ,age. ine winter wheat acreage al. ri•ady ' ,own establishes a new high rec. 'rd, with nearly 40,000,000 acres, and err doubt the '1° lug ameagir also will be proportionately as large. 'Put wheat growing is more or les. of a speculative business on account 01 Dress Goods Season after Season a large majority of discriminating women have depended and wisely on this store for their needs in dress mater- ials. Our stock is always selected with great care, but this year we feel better satisfied than ever before. Below we mention a few of the many weaves we are now of- fering. Gaberdines, crepe meteor, charmeuse, wool crepes and foulards. Weaves that you'll want, the newest, hardsomest that looms anywhere have turned out and all are desirable .111d reas- onable. We keep everything - you expect to find and many things you never expected. •••••••••••••••~sromm..... COUGHLIN BROS. & CO. Yours for Quality and Right Prices • ow •••••• eo• ..ar • 'NOV ow., ••• 41.• moor mharop mom's. •••• uir oft , %eat her uneertainty, pi the farmers mho iviih to play safe will continue to fleprnd upon divernifiell crops, and th.e.r• whir go in strolig for live stock Piiil .1.11: ving be the surest of good jamas. The ir1e- nit Iiie stork high and hound to continue so for, % Unit', egardIrse of all efforts in Itt. crease the supply. The bankern . through- out the Northwest hare nay -.been active for several yeare in the work of promoting the live stock industry and iltclping the farmers to get more :end higlar grade stock. - Summing up the live steak problem W. L. Briggs: vies president of th; ,Nerthweetern National batik of Min- ns:1;001s, recently said: \ 'It is not a matter of tenets or arriminet ions, notwithstanding that 'Is alio the Federal Government bewail fy .. when first the fact became ap. par. lit that there was not meat enough to go eround et old prices. It is not a creutrinition of cattlemen, or butchers. It i the inevitable working out a IVO. I noirrie la Wi. Legislation can't grow cattle. \ 'Insofar aa we can educate people te the situation and influence the pro- ducers, we may check the trend and eVen restore former conditions in part. But laws cannot bring it about aud if 'the years of the immediate future bow the trend continuing, even higher nicer than any yet heard of will havs to he paid by meat eaters. The nimpl , It i- that the country, for severs sears, has not been producing meal trough to go around. \ Marketing of calves i s one of th. aleat ;oils. How to cheek if Is a prob- lem. At Smith fit. Paul, for examplr , 1 total live stock receipts for the last 'brie yearn, nearly 211 per cent has 'seen calves. The farmer who fa a dairy. ?men finds it lens troubles/1mi, to •erll ,he calves. It la -likely to be espaeial• 'y bad now that prices 4 farm prod• mote, (Torn especially, are so high. There will be less induceranit to the farmer o feed his stock. \ ROI not possimistic on the outlook. On the contrary I think much owe be lone. I look for the recent Governene.nt , eport to take its plowe as one of the Moat Important of its kind. It mates slain to till who may rare to study it, s tnd ninny will study it with the great. •st interest, the canse for the higher •••••••••••••••• used and. 1otue sectkma where water is abundeafe . : . 44? comet:we red clover is lewd foe. ti 'purpose. There are also somegood blue , itt l iggs pastures. Where these peroptaies.'41i*•tires do , teit temporarily rye,' h wheat • Or s ome of (be grains ef*tiectrasfully used in their placee.. • As -the summer 'cumin, Adeance,. peas are peiviiIed for hogging off and nq crop trill pNodtice pork fast& or at lewd cost than*, ip!sed . flaklof either Canadian pees or itoisik• ei.ftm . garden kinds. In certain seetionli.4-Moatatia thes'e produce from 20 to tilik t eeeshalts of peed per acre. lioggieg, rut corn Is coming into pop' ular favor., 'The entire coot of harvest' iug tit'n 'broP I s elimivated by turning in hogs when the seed is well grown, alanit the first of September, and allow- ing theta la harvest the i•rop. One fer- nier svith iti acre and a half of corn turned in 13 shoats weighing 123 pounds each and when they hadeompleted the liarveeet the weight of the bunch had inereaerd 100 pounds, which was sold at six cents a pound.. This makes the product of each here worth PO. A very common practice is to turn bogy in on the grain stubble, particular.. tv wheat end barley stuhble, after the harvest and alkrw the brigs to glean the field for the nett four months with prautically no feed exeept the nattered (rain and fallen beads. On this basin vhat ever pork is produeted i, ;deer vel• et. In the sugar beet growing sections. he beet tops and a few beets left in .he ground ;suffice for feeding pigs sev- oat months in the year without any Aber feed whatever. Alfalfa hay, sugar beets and =eget& make a good whiter ration, and only when fattening takes piece isr it necies• eery to feed grails. A little grain is fed in the inecomer fee peek 0 the alt • aka f,ifituie,. The shelter problem le vintner to that •kewbere, except that 'draw can be used 'o a large extent for making shelter Soth in 'simmer and Whitt/. Clean Your Seed Does it pay to clean need grain! That is a question which in poetically retry irrstence should be anewered in the :neat prices with facts and figu.ree. It. affirmative. There ere isolated homestead aniken it apparent that Wk.' have who live a long distance from any more „ su e. , „t less meat, or farmer who luta a mill, henna cannot iget the seed grain cleaned; but for the 'ay higher price -a for it.' Ilot by legislation. but hr io-operation !r ! \' eft is then a problem to be aolved farin o e f r b u ri o ne b wri a ah s ahni a n\ i f i . ii r l i l t o ot r rtrwi e t a ai n insel g y e a t actips tht y : ..• between the farmers end the bankers ri \ n the end other bueinesa Mell.\ Agriculturally, Ntontana 15 one of the °lowest states In the Union and hoe en more rapid deeeloptuent than any her eettion, yet we have now pre , i,; eally every weed that any of the old' r agricultural states have. While 4 tree that all kinds of grain mask' :onderful growth end are of the bete utility, weeds do equally well in Mon 'ins, Moat of tbese troublesonv -eerie were brotight into the state le !their feed or seed. anti litiVe liner ern st-attered to nearly every (ermine eset iou. Montana produepa the beet 'rains and idionld be the leading ;teed -rain center of America, but we can- not build up a reputation for good VerTIS if the vverals keep on inereaeing. there are other methods by ehieh weeds eproid, the utatter . of seed iseeth v•onsidering. Running the grain rerougfialauning mill will improve the uality or seed by eeparating the light, smature, anri 'abrunken kernels from he good Peed, it' also separates fore - : g in seeds from . the grain. Ail of (hero' 'irk!, whirl' is of much ingewtsnee chile nar prirre cent Intid. The .rernin5, reav he nitlized In feffl ilre lock. Dosia pro Theta hack into the ¶011011. Hog Industry No branch of livestock careen It \iontane has progesised as' rapidly dur rig the last two or three year s es ho; • raising. The .r.wino rrf Montana ar • -omparatively free frnin diseare. (lied Pra has been found in isolated section .n only a email proportion of the herd.' ciao cord of swine is comparatively low Swine can run out nearly the whole yea around. These conditions, therefore, o lioalth, economy of praised ion, ant' small cost of ahelter mak. hog raisin: I very iiromising industry in the years to come. says the Montane Farmer. Thu' important factors in seeeeptifir r ook produtions are: the find of Farrel 'opt, the system of feeding awl llift II agenient, and the facilitiee for sheltei . Nearly all of the breeds of swqic flour rsh in Montana;, the Hume Jereeyn, Po land Chinas, Berkshires, Yorkshires (heeler liVhitrs and ilempithirev. Nob the Harm- Jeeseys are the moo populnr than most of the ether bereele •vith the Poland and Chines lied Berk ihlrea following aoinewhat vlosely. A •ew Tanaworths hero tarn peculiarly fa , enrable to the production of the Wow. •vpe hog, but as this markets do not liseriminnte in price breeveen the bacon ii;1 the lard hog, the growei is not like• I ry to punt- very inlick t10/11 l0141 to the a -ha-lion of One or the other type. What e. desired for 'Montana conditions is an .active hog wit Ii a Inn; tio , IT end strong hones and a good ronstitntion that will roolifie and will largely rustle for taelf.: The breed iti of minor consequence antl \an ho left to the preference of the far•1 flier or of the community, for eointerun• dy work WI hog produrtion has litany sdvantagets., The most trictsseiful eyetem of (riding hog!, in hlantana is Wiwi upon alfalfa Pennies , Sr picture of sweet clever which , s rapidly coming Into (aloe or some Alter good pasture plant. Rope may be Any ot the' etatidant nail,'\ of fAn aing nulls will do the murk a liar/ spilpped wills the right kited of eleven and are adjueted properly. In operating the mW adjtevt the sieves AO that the heavy kernels drop through and the light Olie9 will pass OD over the ales -ex. The opposite is true of the lower shoe ) .te%'e4, there the small, broken kernels find small weed Krirdi • 54111 1 1/1.1 . 4T/11 , hrnalZ11 ibe plump kernels tresid on over the sir -see and, in some are graded, pri not feed Ion heavily an 1,• , 41 , 1 1:pfV.:eADTlei he 'ton' then. Thr. speed i'in4 blast should be eszo i s fea Iii iiit (hr kind of grain seri- firsted. Zinc hiirdl i ee•'sprwar In be the lee' ;sieves for separating nate or bee- jer from wheat, ohm for clesniug al• falls VISA. Th e r e are s everal Hese tesehines on market now for &eyelid lag sullul •••••..1• I mitt from other greiegi. Some of these em well adapted to that line of work. stormy days that otherwise may be waist ed. The grain can be cleaned during Weekly News Letter Wheat Nen Earley Oats ..... Rye . Buckwheat bitehel Jka .77i8 roviitters . burdiel „.504 lairseed . , . bushel .. 1.637 1275 terfon . . proind .. .074 .1111 putt, r .... pound .. .270 .274 chickens .... pound .. .116 .117 rfer dozen .. .2112 .284 Hay ton .. 11.8.9 12.41 -- ----- NO MORE PERMITS Washington, Feb. 22. -After a live' 'ty contrcrsorsy in regard to conditiows on the Crew reservation and the ad- ennistration nf the Indian agent is eiparge the venate Indian committee Briley adopted an amendment to the appropriation for Crow agency sal- mi -lea and expenses tortedding the de- partment to grant any grazing leases or permits on .the reservetion unless first approve) by a regularly elected council, of the Indians. The committee adopted the emend- raent offered by Senator Myers to in. crease the appropriation for the Flat• head irrigstion project from $500,000 to $687,900. The increase was made necessary through a ruling of the cote ,troller of the treasury that an unex- pended ba lance of ele7,000 from last year's appropriation fria the Flathead project must be returned to the treas- ury. The reappropriation of the amount win en able (he' service irs romplete letertila of the Pablo canal (his year. LOOK OIJT FOR THEM From different parts of the counery comes stories of a .swindles sueceesfully worked on farmer s who thought they were going to get cheap groceries. Two smooth strangers went through the communities taking orders for a house in Chicago, pretenine to sell etandard brand of WORST and flour en cheaply that every fanner viirited fools &con eV) tutft worth. and other thing be - sides. Breen/se of the low prices the flour and sugar had to he \paid in id- oomeis.\ If Is alleged that in rune corn- eitinte • the na - taileni poked op SODle ppm snd no F roctrie.wi delivered% The Weekly Neer. Letter from the department of agriculture contains the following Information concerning the trend of farm product prices that is of interest to all at this time: According to the department's Bureau of Crop Estimates, the level of prices paid to producers of the United States for the priecipal crops Increased about 11.2 per cent during January; in the SeVeD years the price level haa in- creased during January about 2.1 per cent. From January 1 te February 1 the price of wheat increesed 21 per cent, corn 11 per cent, oats 11 per cent, bar- ley 10 per mat, rye 12 per ceut, buck. wheat 7 per cent, potatoes 1 per cent, flaxseed El per cent, hay 4 per cent, cotton 13 per cent, chickens 3 per cent, butter declined 3 per cent and eggs declined 8 per cent. . On Pebruary I the Index figure of crop prices was about 0.4 per cent higher than a year ago, 24.8 per cent higher than two years ago, and 11.1 per cent higher than the average of the past *even yearn on February 1.. The level of prices paid to producers of the United States for meat animals decreased 0.0 per (sent during the month from December 15 to January 15. This comPares with an average Increase from December 15 to Jenuary 15 in the past friar rears of LB per mat. .0e Janatary 15 the. average (weighted) price if meat anintals--hoga, cattle,, itett . th1thean--was . $6.37 per 100 .. pounds, which comparwr with $7.05 year ago, $8.40 two years ago, $3.44 ,-khree years ago. $6.40 four years sere and $6.67 five years ago. The average prices to producers (or the entire United States, on dates In- dicated, are as follow: Feb. 1, Feb. 1, 11113. 1914. bushel.. $1.299 $0.816 bushel .. .728 eitia bushel . .62.9 buelse) . .501 .. :3ft3 owl Loon .61 I I The principle 'Innis -et! iv , improved bighwses are reorlal and do- mestic. happiness and business econom- ics. aewromwaserewsweleentsauersasaoraisissei