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s THE RIVER PRESS. WIDNIISDAY. NOV. k 421 Montana News Brieflets A Budget of interesting Short Items Collected in Various Parts of the State Missioula, Nov. 2. -Returning from a day's shooting at the Nine Pipe reser- voir, Earl C'hamberlain, vocational student at the . university was killed Instantly when the car he was driving swerved from the road and plunged down a 26 -foot embankment, pinning hen and hie three friends beneath the machine. Thompson retie, Nov. 2. - Arthur Popham, manager of the Montana Power company's hospital here, was killed almost instantly this afternoon while hunting with Addis Ainsworth. Popham was shot in the shoulder when young Ainsworth thought Popham was a wild animal in the brush. His wife was hunting by his side. Bozeman, Nov. 2. -Complaint of Gal- latin county property owners that this year's taxes are too high has brought about an organization here to sotIcit lower governmental expenses. The body is known as the Gallatin County Taxpayers' association. The organiza- tion was started soon after the tax no- tices were mailed out by the county treasurer. Great Falls, Nov. 2.-D. W. Bowker, proprietor of the New Cascade hotel at Cascade, was adjudged guilty of main- taining a common nuisance in viola- tion of the state prohibition law by a district court jury Wednesday after- noon. The verdict, which was reach- ed after four hours' deliberation, fixed the punishment at 30 days in the coun- ty jail and a fine of $100. Kalispell, Nov. 3. -Dell Griffis Har- bin, the four -year -old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Harbin, east side ranchers, died Wednesday morning at the Sis- ters Hospital as result of severe burns received Monday when his clothing caught fire from a jack -o -lantern which he and his brothers were making and which in some manner was brought in- to contact with a can of gasoline. Livingston. Nov. 3. -\Put me in jail or I'll kill my son-in-law,\ was what Ben Carlisle, well known Livingston contractor, told Sheriff James Mc- Clarty Thursday night. McClarty im- mediately placed Carlisle behind the bars. Carlisle's son-in-law is William F. Broell, who eloped with his daugh- ter several months ago, according to the officers. Carlisle is said to have threatened Broell several times. Helena, Nov. 2. -The supreme court, pursuant to stipulation, Tuesday re- versed the district court of Missoula county in the case of the state ex rel. J. T. Green, former sheriff of Missoula county, vs. J. W. Himes, R. Dishmon, Frank Riley and certain intoxicating liquors. The court held that the sher- iff had seized liquors on an improperly issued search warrant and ordered him to return them to the defendants. Billings, Nov. 3. -Plenty Coos, here- ditary chief of the Crow tribe, will of- ficially represent America's 300,000 In- dians at the nation's observance of Armistice day in Washington on No- vember 11, according to announcement made by C. H. Asbury, superintendent of the Crow Indian reservation. Plenty Coos has played a prominent part in fighting for the rights of the American aborigine for more than a generation. Glasgow, Nov. 2. - James Deegan. pioneer of eastern Montana, died at his home in Frazer early Monday morning. He had been troubled of late years with kidney trouble which caused hardening of the arteries and resultant heart weakening. Mr. Dee- gan had been in business at Glasgow, then in the cattle busines at Hinsdale and of late years had been engaged in the mercantile business at Frazer and Oswego. Missoula, Nov. Zs -Cities throughout the northwest have been asked by Mis- soula county officials to be on the lookout for W. H. Harlow, who, it is charged, during a little over a week in the locality succeeded in unloading bad checks to a total of nearly $5,000. The paper used was on the First State bank of Omaha. During his residence here, Harlow is charged with cashing eight bad checks, including two for large amounts. MICKIE SAYS \evaseRe‘. FOR YOuGt. NOME VAtliaPASSit\ WEEK. 4 NOVEMBER\ - CO 12. ,VJHEN.1 114' eorcoas t% (.100.11 - A ISMJC71 A RIEG`i_AR GPOWER Or MEW READERS A -Vi WA. Eovit.a.%, %ORE fimrfraAto Ha& %Haat * ORDER - 114' PAPER FM ?NA( FRIEND Wi-tOlG moveD AwAY1 v4e. I LL nwo•I rr1 Cut Bank, Nov. 2. -The old Cut Bank flour mill was burned Saturday morn - tag. Owing to the crop failure and oth- er causes, the manufacture of flour had been discontinued, and the building contained virtually dew machinery and copt in the neighborhood of $10,000 to build. T. B. Bombay was the head of the concern. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Poplar, Nov. 2. -Sheriff P. J. Nacey, together with two revenue officers, seized a carload of booze, valued at $1,100, together with a Cadillac Eight, valued at $4,000, at the Culbertson fer- ry last week. The men, who gave their names as William Paradise and Harold Davis of Sheridan, Wyo., were brought to the county seat and given a hearing. Billings, Nov. 2. -In the first case at this term of district court involving violations of the prohibition laws, J. J. Crable was sentenced by Judge R. C. Strong to serve live months in the county jail and pay a fine of $100. This is the heavieat penalty ever imposed in the local court In a liquor case. Crable was formerly a contractor un- der the state highway commission. Butte, Nov. 3. - Leaving her nine - months -old baby alone In her unlock- ed house, Mrs. Boyce A. Smith ac- companied her husband in a stolen au- tomobile and entered the Olson gro- cery, 580 South Emmet street, early yesterday morning, where police found the pair engaged in the act of robbing the store. Mrs. Smith is 23 years of age. According to the officers she displayed the nerve of an expert under the excitement preceding the arrest. of her husband and herself. Havre, Nov. 3. -Even the modern In- dian is following the ways of his white brother by seeking the divorce courts, as evidenced by a complaint filed in the district court here by David Scab- by Robe of the Blackfeet Indian reser- vation, who is seeking a divorce from his squaw, Annie Scabby Robe, and naming Walter Mountain Chief as co- respondent. It is alleged by David that his squaw has given her affections to Walter Mountain Chief, another of the Blackfeet tribe, and that she has de- serted the plaintiff. Missoula, Nov. 3. - Records at the clerk and recorder's office indicate that many of the persons caught in the city-wide booze raid here a month ago are transferring title to property owned by them to the names of their wives or others not connected with the raids. Majority of the transfers have been by deeds and in several cases through bills of sale. Officials here are of the opinion in case confiscation Is attempted by the court, the trans- fers may be declared illegal. Helena, Nov. 3. -Retirement salaries in the cases of five Montana school teachers who have taught in the schools of the state for 25 years or more were approved by the teachers retirement salary fund board at a spe- cial meeting held Thursday afternoon. They are Mrs. Katherine Edie, Miss Emma A. Perry and Miss Katherine Harrington, all of Helena; Mrs. Maude Canavan Hume of Geraldine, and Miss Ella L. Hayden, of Billings. They will receive a monthly salary of $50 under retirement. Anaconda, Nov. 3. -John Anderson, an aged harness maker, was shot and probably fatally wounded at George- town, 20 miles from here, last night, and Fred Gagnier, former mayor of Anaconda and one time member of the legislature, is held in the Deer Ledge county jail charged with the shooting, In a signed statement Anderson said that the shooting followed a quarrel he had with Gagnier in a cabin owned by the latter and from which Anderson had been evicted. He returned to get some of his things, he told the officers, and encountered Gagnier. Columbia Falls, Nov. 2. -Joseph Mothka who was recently reported killed by a wounded elk was not killed but narrowly escaped with his life. He sustained painful injuries when at- tacked by the wounded animal, but is now reported resting. easy at his home near Marion. Mothka had shot a bull elk and had laid his rfle down to ap- proach and cut the animal's throat. As he reached down with his knife the ani- mal revived and commenced fighting with his fore feet and antlers and in- flicted painful injuries to the bunter before he was finally dispatched. Havre, Nov. 2. -Earl Pewit Is con- fined to a local hospital, hovering be- tween life and death as a result of burns received from an explosion of a kerosene can when he attempted to light a fire in the stove at his home early Monday morning. Pewit had lent the kerosene can and when he touched a match to the fire in the stove, the gasoline vapors exploded and blew the bottom of the can out, causing the contents to saturate the scanty clothing he was wearing. Stanford, Nov. 2. -Holding livestock, especially horses, for ransom is the lat- est activity of rustlers in Montana, in the opinion of local stockmen, who have been complaining to Sheriff Kel- ley of the loss of horses and cattle. Forty head of stock have disappeared from local ranches In the last few weeks, thought to have been driven in- to the Belt mountains, Sheriff Kelley found five head of cattle said to have beetr stolen and these animals were in a deep coulee in the hills where, it is said, they would not have gone with- out being driven. s., s Saco, Nov. 4 . - According to se. P. Hammond. a Successful farmer resid- ing near here, corn nays double, first in the crop itself and then in summer fallowing. Mr. Hammond reports that this year he threshed thirty bushels of wheat per acre from last year's corn ground. His corn husked out 60 bush- els to the acre. Helena. Nov. 2 . - Settlement of the claim of Mrs. Mabel Mohan, a nurse formerly in the employ of the Havre school district, was announced today by Chairman Jerome G. Locke of the state industrial accident board. Mrs. Mohan was injured by a fall on the ice in 1919. The state board ordered that she should be paid a total of $2,215. Helena, Nov. 2. -The eggs of Mon- tana are coming into their own, ac- cording to H. M. Shea, director of the division of food and drugs of the state department of health, who has announ- ced that the product of the thrifty hen is showing marked improvement. Ac - cording to Director Shea, candling of eggs furnishes a reliable method for detecting eggs in the shell which are unfit for food purposes. The process is ndt complicated or difficult, it is said. Whitehall, Nov. 2. -Net profit of $70 an acre from 95 acres of pens is the re - suit reported for the year by James Bergtolio, who has a farm six miles northwest of Twin Bridges. Similar results are reported by other pea grow- ers of this locality. The fact that a large eastern seed house buys more pea seed from this region each year is conclusive evidence, Jefferson valley farmers contend, that the local product is the best. Great Falls, Nov. 3.-A gang of auto thieves is believed to be operating in Great Falls and five cars have been stolen in the past week -in each case the cars have been stolen from the street where they were temporarily left by the owners. The police have sent out circulars, and are of the be- lief that the thieves are bootleggers Und that the cars will be found engag- ed in the whisky traffic between Can- ada and the United States. Great Falls, Nov. 3. -Contrary to the usual procedure the Great Northern railway received damages of $350, with exemplary damages of $100 from the individual in the district court before Judge J. B. Leslie Thursday afternoon. The individual was Thomas Sire, a rancher near Windham, who was charged with having cut the Wires be- side the right of way of the railway, and left his threshing machine upon the track, where it was struck by a train, and the engine damaged. Helena, Nov. 5. -Governor Dixon an- nounced Saturday that, beginning the latter part of the month he would be absent from Montana until about the middle of December. The governor plang_to attend the reclamation meet- ing in Salt Lake November 29 and from there will go to Charleston, S. C., where he will attend a conference of governors early in December. Fol- lowing this meeting he will go to Washington with the committee of governors, who will confer with na- tional leaders on reclamation. Eureka, Nov. 6.-A masked hold-up of Lafe Sweet in his cabin by two youths who tied Sweet to his bed and took $70, has been followed by the ar- rest and conviction of Ward Hance and John Cuffe and the holding of Xennie Bernhart and McKinley Irvin for court, following their arrest twice. Sweet declared he recognized the youths, despite their masks, and they confessed, but asserted that Bernhart and Irvin were implicated. The latter were given a hearing and discharged, -but were subsequently rearrested on a bench warrant. Malta, Nov. 5. -Work on the Bow- doin oil well ceased this week. As much of the casing as could be re- moved had been taken, and the well has been permanently abandoned, ac- cording to Harry Cosner, local mana- ger of the Bowdoin Oil and Gas com- pany. Test wells are being sunk by the company on a dome mix miles northeast of the present well. Efforts are being made to locate the flow so that work can be started In earnest next spring. Drilling will continue until climatic conditions prevent fur- ther work. Butte, Nov. 5. -The city of Butte may be sued for $8,150 alleged to be due for preparation and printing of election lists, according to the board of county commissioners who have instructed the county attorney to make an effort to collect the bill. Demand has been made on the city, according to the commissioners and the bill has not been paid. The com- missioners will also demand 6 per cent interest on the ground that they have paid the bills by registered war- rants which bear interest at the same rate. Helena, Nov. 5. -The adoption of a blanket fire insurance policy covering all state buildings was discussed by the state board of examiners with a view to effecting a considerable saving on premiums now being paid. The blanket policy system now in vogue in Utah was studied by the board and it was the view of Governor Dixon that a similar policy could he Inaugurated in Montana. The board voted to call in the secretary of the state board )f underwriters next Wednesday, to dis- cover just what authority the state had in the matter. Helena, Nov. 6.-Potat0 shipments troll MCiatana this fall had reached CU carloads on October 29, according to figures made public Saturday by F. W. Beier. Jr., federal crop statistician for Montana. Total shipments last year were 915 carloads, Mr. Belers records show. He predicts that there will be 1.400 carloads in the 1921 move- ment from this state. Helena, Nov. 6 -No trace has Oven found of Sheriff Thomas Spratt's Stud ebaker machine which was stolen from where it was parked in front of the county jail at a late hour Friday night I The sheriff had been out on a call in another machine and when he return- ed his own car was missing. Authori ties in neighboring towns and cities have been notified of the theft. Helena, Nov. 6. -The etate board of equalization has granted the appeal of W. A. Clark, Jr., from an assessment of $6,100,000 imposed on him by the Silver Bow council board. The action on the Clark appeal practically con- cludes the year's work of the state board, which adjourned with the un- derstanding that if would not meet again except upon call of the gover- nor. Chinook, Nov. 6. -County Agent Thortinnson and the boy& of the live- stock judging team have returned from the stock show at Spokane, where the Blaine county team was awarded fifth place among the ten teams present. The boys from the county made a score of 1,248 points out of a possible 1,600. The highest score, that of the Whitman county team, was 1,378, while the lowest score was 1,102 points. Red Lodge, Nov. 4. -With the avow- ed purpose of finding out why taxes in the county are high, representatives of the Carbon County Farmers' union appeared before Judge R. A. Stong of the district court, with an application for a grand jury investigation of the conduct of the various offices and offi- cers of Carbon county. The matter was taken under advisement by Judge Stong and a reply will be made to the farmers as soon as the justice of the claim can be ascertained. Butte, Nov. 6. -Two automobiles will be defendants in suits to be tried in the United States district court this month. Forfeiture of the cars will be sought by the United States under the prohibition act. The two actions, in- volving the cars at this term of the federal court, are entitled \The United States Against a Cole Eight Automo- bile and Others\ and \The United States Against a Stephens Automobile and Others.\ Trial of the two cases was set for November 18. Lewistown, Nov. 6. -The Lewistown Oil and Refining company has just made paytnent to the state on the first tax license issued by the board of equalization. The tax on gasoline manufactured and sold within the state is one cent per gallon and it Is, therefore, evident that the re- turns from the Lewistown Oil and Re- fining company alone will soon become an item of importance to the state school fund, as Its output at this time ,is approximately 6,000 gallons daily. s Butte, Nov. 5. -Mrs. Margaret Rozsa, who held the position of city food in- spector under Mayor Stodden, ham re- ceived notice, unofficially, that she has been appointed special prohibition investigator for Montana under 0 H P. Shelley, the prohibition commis- sioner. Her duty will include the in- spection of drug store and physicians' permits and the checking up of pre- scriptions and liquor shipments. She will report at Helena for assignment to her duties. Mrs. Rozsa has been ac- tive in women's club work and politi- cal activities in this city and state for several years. Picture Uses Million Feet of Film. Almost a million feet of film wee \shot\ to make possible \Miracles ef the Jungle,\ the wonder animal pro duction, the second chapter of which will be shown at the Mission theater on Sunday, November 13. Because of the wild animals used, many of the scenes had to be taken over two ant three times, in order to get th% rig'it action. SPECIAL FOR CASH ONLY 100 pounds Sugar - 49 -pound sack Fort Flour Corn Flakes, package - Creameftes, package - Egg Noodles, package - Cream of Wheat, package $7.50 $1.65 - 10c - 9c - - 9c 28c Underwood Mustard Sardines 2 cans for - - WE DELIVER 25c SHARP BROTHERS A MISSION THEATER -THURSDAY. NOV. 10 ALMA RUBENS IN \HUMORESQUE 9 9 \TAMING WOODPECKERS\-MUTTA JEFF COMEDY FOX NEWS Admission -Adults 55c. Children 20c. War tax included. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOV.11AND 12 WALLACE REID IN What's Your Hurry? \THE ELEPHANT'S NIGHTMARE\ -A SUNSHINE COMEDY SUNDAY, NOV. 13 PAULINE FREDERICK IN \The Woman in Room 13\ \THE PASSAGE OF DEATH,\ Chapter 2. -Miracles of the Jungle Everything In - Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Fish and Lard Prices Reasonable Quality Guaranteed Fort Benton Meat Company Missoula, Nov. 5. - Donald H. Be- thune, scaler in District No. 1 of the forest service, was killed yesterday by a falling tree in the Kaniksu forest in northern Idaho, according to a mes- sage received by headquarters here. His companion received a broken arm and other injuries. Helena, Nov. 5. - Preparations for the shipment of fish fry Co rod and gun clubs throughout Montana for the year of 1922 have already begun, according to J. H. Brunson, state superintendent of hatcheries. Superintendent Brun- son is calling on all the different clubs in the state to forward to the capital Immediately their requests for fry in order that allotments can be made early in the year. The first fry to be Issued will be brook trout, then the greyling, rainbow and native. The state figures on allotting 5,280 fry to the mile of stream. Butte, Nov. 3. -Butte workers began the task last night of arranging to provide for every needy family In the city during the winter months at a meeting of war chest subscribers in Judge Carroll's court room. Nearly 400 persons attended the meeting and they attacked solidly the emergency that is confronting many families in Butte. The statement that Butte will have to care for from 800 to 1,000 fam- ilies this ,winter was made by Chair- man W. B. Daly of the committee, in charge of distributing the relief. Great Falls, Nov. 2. -With more than 60 cases on the docket charged with violations of the prohibition law iduring the fall term which opened in Great Falls today, County Attorney H. !G Bennett promises to add considera- bly to his already heavy load of boot- legging scalps collected. As a matter of fact Mr. Bennett has the record for the state of Montana as to convictions for the violation of the prohibition law during his term, the number he has se- cured leading all counties in the state. Mr. Bennett has not done his work with a brass band, but he has been sawing prohibition wood all the while, and the number of his bootlegging con- victions number 80, which is a consid- erable number. Helena, Nov. 4. -Application from a blind man to take the state bar exam- ination at the regular December tests has been received by J. T. Carroll, clerk of the state supreme court. The application is by D. F. Shea of Butte, now municipal judge of the mining city. His request for permission to take the examination carries the fur- ther plea that he be allowed a stenog- rapher to assist him. Mr. Shea lost his sight through an illnees in infancy. Nine years of his life were passed as a student in the state school at Boulder for the deaf and Box Elder, Nov. 2. -Crooked Nose and his wife Landing, two Indians on the reservation, are considered the best farmers in this section when it comes to raising a crop. They planted two and one-half acres to Marquis wheat and then harvested 132 bushels, or a little better than 52 bushels to the acre. This yield is remarkable when it is considered that the crop was cut by Crooked Nose and his wife without the aid of machinery of any kind. They cut the crop with butcher knives and about six weeks' time was consumed in the cutting. A
