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IMO \TA VOLUME VIII. t 1\ I GHP 1. • WHITEHALL, MONTANA, FRUAAY. JULY 16, 1909. - THE MONTANA SUNLIGHT PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. W. L. RICKARD Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. One Year. (invariably In advance) .. de 00 his Months s . 1 00 Three Months ................ 50 Single Copied 5 Entered at the Peetoffiee at Whitehall. Mont.. as Second -altos Matter. ADVERTISING RATES. Display—One Dollar per inch per month. Locals—Ten Cents per line first insertion: five cents per line each subsequent buiertion. NOTICE . All communications intended for publics. Mon in this paper must bear the sIgnatuth of the author; otherwise they will illnd Abair way to the waste basket. COUNTY OFFICERS. a J nitre. Fifth Jediciel Dist\ . rags r,. Ca Rawer Meek of the Court W el T. Sweet eheriff . Under Sheriff Jailer 111.11UrIr Clerk and Reiorder County Attorney ...... M. Kelly Assessor Jas.. Mitchell Surveyor R.11. Cralle Sup% of Schools ,Leta, M. Thompson Public Administrator ...... W. L. Beardsley Coroner Curtis Denbow oostittssroNtes. Pants Steele, Chairman Basin John II Reilly Clancy A. J. McKay. . Whitehall The regular meetings of the boaryl_of county commissioners begin on the first Monday in March. June. September and December. The members also serve as a board of equalisa- tion. meeting for this purlson on the third Monday in July. Teams or comer. For the Fifth Indica' District. comprising the countle• of Jefferson. Beaverhead and Ninliaon, the regular quarterly terms begin S. follows: Jefferson coynty the third Wednesday in j anuses. first Tuesdey in April first Tuesday July and the second Tuteulay In October. Beaverhead County. third Wednesday In February drat in Wednesday May, the drat Wednesday In A ugust and the second Wednes- day in November. Madison county grat Monday in March and June. fourth Monday In August. second Tuesday in DeCembet. .1. Slanniag ..K. B. tYolverton E. IZ, Sumner AV. B. Randier E. R. McCall ACACIA CRAPTER, No. 21, o. E. S. Meets on FIRST and TIIIRD TUF.SDAY evenings of each month et Masonic Hall. Visiting members are cordially invited to attend. VIRGINIA L t L•te, . M. M RR O. an•tls. See!. MYSTIC TIE LODGE, No. IT, A. F. A A. M. ffieeteon the SECOND and FOURTH TUES- DAY evenings of each month at Masonic Hall. Visiting members are cordially tn- •Ited to attend. J. P. MeFilinge. W. M. A. A. Narbeam. Ike E. 0. Pace, ATTORNEY -AT -LAW into NOTARY PU131.IC Whitehall, Moat. I KELLY & KELLY, LAWYERS. Main Offices Office In Whitehall Boulder. Mont, Every Saturday Notaries Public. wwwwsiniswwwwwWWWw‘Ww% HOTE , L 0 r a Goo :FIRSON Prices are Moderate. Special Rates to Boarders L. R PACKARD, Physician and iStarasttan. Cages requiring hospital eve given special attention. Hospital.Office and Residence on First street 111/hltattell. Mont. IF. JACKSON SOLE DISTRIRUTOR 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TPIADC MMus Dynan* COPYRICIPITO Anyotto eseing a dotal and desariptial ghlekly ascertain our opinion !re* uhuthlif SD invention la probablzpatants.. Gong Atrictly coned,. 1.1._RAND on pgtant, sant fr..('151st('151stIggennr.rur_ . ted Patents taken through Mann A Co. means ftotics, without charge. ID t • litifiC Rmtrican. a A haseesmety ittnatested Math. Istra. Station of any golentitta tournG. Ts mg, PI 51st 105? months, 80)4by Ail ng & CO 381 Broaden. N ew y er t Pessd Men. l5 I\ Pt.. Itaablaatao, B. C. • Dixon on Inheritance Tax. From the great speech of Sena- tor Joseph M. Dixon, delivered in the senate on June 29th we quote the following: Mr. President, it has been a surprise to me that the Finance Committee has seen fit to quietly ignore the one provision of the House bill that, to my mind, seemed to meet the requirements of the present state of the Federal Treace Ty a ny question being rai l s i e l l ill t! i ntit on account of a seco . dil - pekesibie adverse do - vision from the &weft° Court as to its constitutionitlity, as in the case In the income tax and pos- sibly the newly proposed corpora- tion tax. There can be no ques- tion raised RS to the certainty and ease with which itean be collected. To the unprejudiced mind, it cer- tainly is the fairest and most equitable of all. Some one has said regarding in- come tax: \Don't disturb the bee while lie is gathering the honey.\ As to the inheritance tax, I would carry the suggestion 11 little fer• tiler, and suggest that when the bee has gathered the honey by his awn laborious efforts thru the sea- son of a long and laborious life, before turning the accumulated hive of honey over lb the drones to eat and fatten at the expense of him who gathered it,. let the guardian of the hive, the govern- ment, step in and take at least a small share ;is a recompense for the expense and care that was necessary , in . safeguarding the hive, without e hich care it na uH have been impossible for the bee to have eccuniatletcd his holey. I now come to that phase of the inheritance tax question that might be a fertile source for n demagogic appeal to the spirit of envy and hatred in the man who has not against . him who has wealth. Speaking personally. I have no envy for the mtlItimaionaire or the great modern financial \cap- tains of industry. \ To the man who enters the lists of the com- mercial and financial world, and by his brain and nerve and brawn fights the battle successfully, and wins by honorable means, I have nothing but sincere admiration and words of praise. And nly opinion ,is not changed. whether the fortune he wins be measured by the thousands or by the millions of dollars. What that man has legitimately won, I belleve lie should enjoy to the utmost degree. If mansions and art galleries, steam yachts and princely gifts, endowments, and all other luxuries that wealth can buy are either necessary, convenient, or helpful to his full enjoyment of life, I would give him full rein. But I do believe that in a de- mocracy, where that whieh we all profess to believe the ideal con- dition of governMent is that which gives equal opportunities to all, that the entailing or the handing down to eosterity of these latter day enormous fortimes may pro- duce a condition .in society that is fraught with great danger, I would not deny to any man the right to transmit to his chil- dren any aim sufficient to enable them to have everything that would be conducive to their com- fort and welfare measured by the highest priced standard of modern living, and I would not overlook the, decision of the New York court in the Gould divorce Case a day or two ago in fixing that standard. I confess I am not able to at this present time nor will 1 tatteuilit to fix that limit. The ancient law of primogeni- ture, giving to the eldest son the right to inherit all the property of the ancestor, a result of the feudal system, while transmitted to the new world was abolished by the founders of this republic. They fully appreciated both the injustice to the individual and the dangers of such an unequal ac- cumulation of wealth in the bands of the few. The founders of this Republic forbade by constitutional prohibi- tions the entailirig of estates. They were rightly afraid of the consequences that permitted men to' direct for generations after theY were dead and gone the dis- position of real property, acquired by them during their lifetime, either by purchase or gift. While all lawyers are fittnilier with the celebrated English statutes of mortmain (from the Latin, mortua manes —a dead hand.) no common school history of the English people would be complete unless it recited the story of the struggle, lasting for five hundred years, of the English nation to free itself from the \dead hand\ of the great ecclesiastical corporations, which threatened gradually to absorb the lands of England, without rendering in return for their tenure services to the overlord or, in other words, the State . , the earliest of the provisions against alienation in mortmain being one of the provisions of the Magna Charta itself. While the law of primogeniture is un ir nos% n in our national life, while the practice of entailing landed estates is prohibited by constitutional enactment,. as a matter of cold fart the actual en- tailing of large estates to the second and third genesation by their dead owners is rapidly be- coming the custom with the own- ers of these latter-day swollen fortunes. Of recent years it Is the almost universal custom of these multi- millionaires to place their vast - estates in a trusteeship by the terms of wilier they can direct its' course for a hundred years after they are dead and gone. The well-kno7n case of the great estate of(Marshall Field, of the estimated talue of $I50,000,- 000, is now securely lodged in the management of trustees for the ultimate benefit and use of two boys of the third generation, who are being at this time reared and educated in England, and are, as I understand it, actually citizens of a foreign country. The $150,- 000,000 of American property for the proOction of which this Gov- ernment maintains its army and navy, its courts, its legislative and executive branches of government, yields no direct service to its over- lord the Federal Government. In this and hundreds of other Cases, the \dead hand\ is once more in direct evidence, in some degree directing and controlling the conditions under ;which men and women of this and succeeding generations must earn their living, and yet that \dead hand \ gives little or nothing in return. Whatever may be the remedy, if there be a remedy, it is emir ent to us all that n condition of society that permits two of its members to absorb one hundred and fifty millions (and the natural inciease will probably double Or amount by the time tVy reach maturity) of the accumulated earn- ings of others by the mere acci- dent of birth is an abnormal and dangerous- condition for society and government. We may hold up our hands in holy horror at this assertion and say this is \ rank socialism,\ but it is nevertheless true. Why should not the Senate adopt the House inheritance -tax provision? Why is it that it has been stricken from this bill by the Senate committee with not a voice raised In protest against the Fi- nance Committee! No questionia raised as to its being constitutional, for the Su- preme Court of the United States within less than tell years has ex- pressly held that such tax is con- titutional, while holding that the income tax is not constitutional. Its provisions reach the stone class that would an income tax. Its collection is easy andeertain, whereas in actual experience the income tax has not been easy and certain of collection. It has all the virtues that are eltiimed for the income tax, with- out a question raised as to the viCes of the income tax in the !natter of its enforcement rsnd con - alltutionnlity. The Last of the Flatheads. With the opening of the Flat- head reservation the Flathead na- tion will cease to be end the mem- bers of tiro trihe will receive and settle upon their allotment and take tip tile avocations of their tailrace brothers. The fifth of this month was a great day for them, and will doubtless be re member by every living member of tee tribe. The events are thus described in a Missoula dispatch of that date: Today will occur, at twlight and thru the night, the last greet pow- wow of the Flathead Indians as a nation. Soon their hinds will be given out to the white men. and the.v, on their allotnientra, will re- tire from significance as it nation of reds. But tonight there will be a tribe. Girt in feathers and bedecked in war paint, they will dance about the camp fire with all the strange ceremonies of their race, with queer writhings and twiatIngs. a ith wild wartshoops and with uneartlal.v tnoaninga. They will begin with the sun dance, and it joyous festival of light and happiness, in which all the tribe will join, but as the night wears on and clarknees gath- ers more quickly they e ill swing into the dread and weird measures of the dance of death, a dance which, for all it li . arbarie movements, will strip from the watcher all the veneer of ancient civilization and instil in him the primeval horror and fright of his ancestors. When the last camp fire is out end the last brave lies dropped gasping to the ground, and dawn comes stalking over the hills, the swan song of the Flatheads will have been sung -they will be only a metnor,v, not a nation. The A. -Y. -P. Exposition. Opening its doors a little over it month ago, the Alaska -Yukon -Pa- cific exposition has made a better record in the first thirty days than has any great show in the past. It has been the experience of all great expositions that the attend- ance the first month has been poor, due to the incompleteness of the fair. But the Seattle fair -has set n new mark. The fair when it opened was not only finished, so far as the work on the buildings was concerned, but almost all of the exhibits were io place. The progressive citizens of Seattle knew they were on trial and they hustled in the true Seattle way with resulta. .Not only that but every man, W0111101 and child in the town Was a booster for the fair, mid the local attendance the first month is said to have been proportionately greater than nt any other big fair. 'rho Seattle Post IntellIgeraer says the attendance the first month exceeded 800,000, arid this will be increased each thirty , days until the gates close. 11 hen the fair is over, the prospect is that there will not only not be it dollar of in- debtedness, but that the people of Seattle who put up their money as stockholders in the fair will get back every dollar they invested. Montana people who Isere visited the fair have returned enthusiastic in its prniso. From the point of view of the landsenpe gardener it is the most beautiful of any fair ail en in this country, all of the mound beauties of the site being retained, and the artist who hind the task of making more beautiful the grounds husaruceess- fully accompliblied hit task. The show itself is an educational one, and gives not only the eastern and foreign visitor it vivid illustration' of the rich resources and progress of the great northwestern country, the ishind dependencies and Alas- ka. but it is uil.oa revektion to the men and women who know no other country thnn the coast, the sound and the Rocky Mountains. -- Daily Record. Attractive Folder. APO We are in receipt of a copy of a very attractive folder, Imndsomely inted in colors. from the gener- al passenger department of the Northern Pacific Railway at St. Paul, exploiting the seventeenth' National Irrigation Congress, to be held in Spokane, August 9-11, lao9. The cover, in colors, is a repro- duction of a photograph depicting the effects of irrigation in one of the tunny fertile valleys of the Northwest, which the Northern Pacific traverses. Half tones from photographs, liberally twinkled thruout the publication, show the benefits of irrigation.and it is . suffi- cient to examine these pictures, without perusing the text, to form it good idea of what irrigation means in the arid sections of the country. The city of Spokane is Pleasing - ly illustrated mid described and a convenient list of hotels and lodg• Mg homes in that city in included. A map of the territory adjacent to Spokane is shown, together with a map of the entire Northern Pacific system and Its relations to the sections in which irrigation pro- jects are either inactive operation, or contemplated. The excellent facilities afforded by the Northern Pacific for reaching Spokane are fittingly described, and at roster of representatives, thru whom train accommodations can be secured is show n Copies of the folder may be obtained, without charge, by addressing A. M. Cleland, Gener- al Passenger agent, Not thern Pacific Railway, St. Paul. BARGAINS, Whitehall, Mont. I have bargains in ranches—acre, five and tee -acre tracts, business and residence lots, houses and lots, First-class investments. .Tell ME what you want.. -D..F. Rmos. The Real Estate Man, Whitehall, Montana. NUMBER 22_ The Whitehall State Bank Capital Paid In, sloata.0m00.00 cake K. ionssoN, A, J. Nicli A V. FRANK II. JOHNSON President. Vice .'resident. Cishier. - --- - --. • 4111•111111111MINIA Ellreictor. a CHAP. U. JollistIoN, II. J. TUTTLE. A. J. MeK A y. L. It. PACKARD, N. 1:. VitA NE II. JOHNSON t t IVI I tinder dieee control of State liank Hoard, Elainlined by then, eve times a year. ft 1 / 1 fr1N1/*/%/Wkiais$1/•/‘1.1\1/‘ F. H. NEGLEY Drugs and Jewelry Pririse-rIpticovida rand Jewelry Retspoilrel a Eipe.cleslty Drugs, Perfumes, Soaps, and Oils, Paints, Watches, Clocks, Silverware $ /// 4 4/ 4 4/ 4 4\4\4/4/Vis4 P. E. NICCE5111 Barber Shop arid F'ool Room Butthlia 1st Ccsinrse.ctIon. I3e.00t his the. strata. Cigaars. Tc.,icoricco, Conte.ctione.ry W. S. CLARK 8c CO... Motiteartea. FOR Oats, Shelled Corn, Cracked Corn, Bran and Shorts, Hard and Soft Wheat and Graham Flour, Groceries of the best kind at right prices, lien's and Boys' Shoes, Sox and Gloves, Sweet 6c Orr Overalls, Jumper and Coduroy ants, Ladles' and Children's Hose, Garden Hoes, Rakes, Shovels, Forks. Alaska -Yukon -Pacific EXPOSITION SEATI'LE, WASH: June I to October 16, 190 A splendid opportunity to combine education with pleasure. Make the trip one of max him enjoy- ment by taking the luxurious Ore trains of the Northern Pacific Railway Vislting YELLOWSTONE PARK, on route, via GARDINER OATEWAY, the official entrance. PORTLAND, the famous Rose City. National Irrigation Oongress,Spokans: Aug.. 9 to 14. Rainier Netionnl Park ar.d Paradise Valley, by auto or rail from Tacoruai June I to October I. Yollovtatune National Paak: 8011.110n June 5 to Sep. tember 25 provide additional attractions. Therficeni. , Highway Tim' uI,eI,a,,,lof V,,rt,,r,e. J.• nolmes, Agent, Whitehall, rlont. • uti • For partlellsre ilbeeraied Ex issillion t.iider, with advice about Summer rourist fares upon •bolicallorl to KANSAS FARMERS INTERESTED. Big Delegation Will Attend Con- gress at Billings. Syracuse, Kea., July 7.—Many additions to the membership roll of the Dry Moaning Congress are being secured in this section of the Sunflower state and large dele- gations will be sent from here to both the Irrigation Congress at Spokane and to the Fourth Dry Farming Congress at Billings, Montana, Octeber 20-28, accord- ing to Dr. O. R. Ilickok, editor of the Hamilton County Republi- can and member for Kansas of the national executive committee of the Dry Farming Congress. In- terest in the work of the congress is increasing in this vicinity and the local chamber s - Of commerce is lictively encouraging the prepara- tion of the exhibit to be sent to The street meetings held here every Saturday continue to attract considerable attention. Buy the light running Standard Mower e ith auto (latch geer and curved cutter bar. For sale by C. W. Winslow. Waterloo, 120t,f. R S'S REAL ESTATE BULLETIN Bargains in Whitehall Property. One 4 -room house, well fin- ished, with three full iota; shade trees, A good investment, $850. One brick. 0-rooms, with good barn' and other outbuilding, on 8 full lots, the finest place in townau live. Nice shade trees. e $3,900, Fergus property. che Iloffman place; small bonne on velar of lot, in If. R. addition; Lot 50x150. If sold at once, price $225. The little brick holiness/A lot, near brickyard. Price $225: _ D. F. RiGgc, WHITEHALL, UO MONTANA.
