{ title: 'The Ismay Journal (Ismay, Mont.) 1910-1933, December 09, 1910, Page 2, Image 2', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about Chronicling America - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn85053190/1910-12-09/ed-1/seq-2.png', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn85053190/1910-12-09/ed-1/seq-2.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn85053190/1910-12-09/ed-1/seq-2/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn85053190/1910-12-09/ed-1/seq-2/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
About The Ismay Journal (Ismay, Mont.) 1910-1933 | View This Issue
The Ismay Journal (Ismay, Mont.), 09 Dec. 1910, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn85053190/1910-12-09/ed-1/seq-2/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
‘ X - , 1 k . : W ' - ■’ A/ 1 |!m ;- 1 I V.v & m :* |£B£. 5)S&’ ' . W , ? V . - j ( H s«r>. v 1 ■A-V: # $ $ $ & P'p P;P& p'P « » « o p . D « SMUN AM D SSFUTC ' ’ 4* 4> i /;<, o D < 4 $ < M » 4 * < 4 I * $ <4 * < l.< 4 <4 < n » (From Miles Cltyi Independent.) Goorgo Burt Hore. The Hon. Geo. W. Burt was a Miles City visitor yes terday and spent some time visiting with his friends here. He will not ship any hogs from his ranch this year, but next season he will begin to realize the first fruits from the indus try, which he started over two years ago and which promises to be an im portant one in eastern Montana. After County Seats. There are re ports in circulation to the effect that Ismay, Baker, Ekalaka and Wibaux are all after county seats and from present indications it looks as if there will be things doing during the next few weeks. It is understood that there will be a number of representa tives from the outside here on next Monday night to attend a meeting of the chamber of commerce at which time the matter may be discussed. - Pushing Work. Work is progress ing nicely these days on the new First National bank building and each suc ceeding day the architectural beauty of the building is added to. It will not be a great while now before all of the extenor work will have been com pleted and then the work of embellish ing the interior will be begun. On the walls there will be some very pretty are designs depicting western life. The interior will be by far the most beau tiful of any bank building in the state. To Improve Breed. Oliver Van, one of the largest sheep men on the north side, was in Terry this week for the purpose of receiving twenty-eight full blooded rams that were imported into this country by a Waukesha, Wis., dealer and sold to Mr. Van. The rams were the largest ever seen in this sec tion, some of thorn weighing around 175 pounds. They arrived over the Milwaukee railroad Wednesday, and after being tested by Inspector Bou- man, were taken to the Van ranch Fri day morning.—Terry Tribune. Col. Spurting Here. Col. J. E. Spurt ing, general agent for the Northern Pacific, with headquarters at Billings, was a Miles City visitor yesterday. •‘•'Business is fine,\ said Mr. Spurting, “‘at the present time. There Is a great deal of passenger traffic to the Pacific coast points and from present indica tions there will be a large immigra tion into Montana next year. The roads are advertising eastern Mon tana pretty generally in the east and I anticipate that the results of their efforts will be great.\ Northern Pacific Lands. Among other Items of Interest contained in the reports which are being assembled at the forestry headquarters at Mis soula concerning lands within the na tional forests in Montana and several other western states, is one showing the amount of land still owned by the Northern Pacific ailway coinpan yin Montana. The original grant to this company through the state of Mon tana was 15,000,000 acres. Today the road owns only 1,200,000 acres in the state. Fifty per cent of this is unsur veyed and not subject to taxation. Ijands Withdrawn. The Miles City land office has received instructions from the general land office relative to the temporary withdrawal of a large tract of land, in all 641,020 acres, lo cated in the triangle formed by the towns of ‘Terry. Ismay and Giendive. tinder the act of June 22, 1910. The withdrawal runs to settlement, loca tion, sale or entry and will he opera tive pending the examination which will be made for the purpose of deter mining the presence or absence of coal and the classification of the hinds in that respect. The townships desig nated are as follows 8 and 9 N., 4 9 E.; 9 and 12 N. GO E ; 9, 10. 11, 12 and 13, N., 51 E.; 12 and 13 N., 55 E.; 12, 13, and 16 N.. GG E ; 12 N„ 57 E. Hundreds Coming. W. J. Keeley, division freight and passenger agent of the Puget Sound road, lias just re turned from a trip over his territory and he states that the influx of new peop’e to eastern Montana and west ern North and South Dakota is im mense at the present time At Eagle Butte, a Bmall station in South Da kota, he states that 256 cars of mer chandise and farm machinery were handled there during the past ten days and that more is coming. The new branch line to Faith is being rapidly constructed and wjth favorable , con ditions It will have been completed within the next two weeks. People, he state, have little Idea of the large number of people that are settling up that country. There are no more homesteads there and people are buy ing land which a year or two ago sold for $10 per acre for $35 and $40. - •»« * , '** ■'W. s. rj>» (From Montana Lookout.) It is safe to predict that it will be a busy legislature which meets next month. Putting aside the election of a United States senator, this legisla ture ought to be notable for other causes. It is a good many years since the people of Montana have been roused to such interest in politics as they have felt in this campaign, and continue to feel in relation to the sen atorial election and the work of the legislature. Two years ago, under the complete control of the Amalgamated Copper company, the free will of the legislature was practically paralyzed; this year, the people having whipped the octopus in the senatorial fight, and having elected a number of law makers the latter tried to defeat, this legislature approximates more closely to something resembling a really rep resentative, American institution. Therefore it ought to be busy; it ought to pass some good laws; and it probably will make a better name for Itself than its trust-ridden predeces sor. At all events, some good laws will be pressed upon its attention, and some of its members may be depended upon to fight for their enactment. One bill that will be Introduced, of the very greatest importance to all the people of the state, will call for the amendment of the state constitution to provide for the taxation of mining property. The vastly wealthy mining corporations of Silver Bow county and the valuable mining property of many other counties for years have escaped their just proportion of taxation, while individual and corporate owners and property of all other classes, sav ing religious and kindred exceptions, have been compelled to pay more than their just share to offset this de fault. The Amalgamated-Anaconda copper combine's property is capital ized for $200,000,000 or more, and its great mines turn out millions of pro fits yearly to enrich its multi-million aire non-resident owners, yet it payB no direct taxes on its huge mines and copper ledges. While the thousands of laborers, farmers, merchants, pro fessional men and others who form the population of this state, pay more than a million dollars yearly in taxes and other revenue to maintain the government, this immensely wealthy copper trust, protected by a mon- • stroualy unjust early-day provision of the fundamental law, gives Bcant re turn of taxes upon its great proper ties, although it enjoys all of the gov ernmental protection and service available to those who struggle under tax burdenB. All over Montana the people have been awakening to the crying injustice of this condition, and a bill will be put before the legisla ture to remedy it by amending the con stitution. The legislature also will be asked to pass other legislation intimately asso ciated with this measure. It is a no torious fact that much property in the state is assessed at Buch scandalously low figures that, property of all kinds, particularly that owned by wealthy men and corporations, very largely escapes a just arte of taxation. Bills to compel county assessors and b i-’ rds of equalization to do their duty In ev ery county and all parts of the state, in the matter of making Just assess ments, will also be introduced in the legislature. These evils are at the very basis of public welfare in this state, and men probably will be found in both houses making strenuous at tempts to initiate legislation designed to rectify them. As usual, the copper trust, the other big business and in dustrial corporations, and wealthy property owners effected will be there fighting them, so results will be d i f ficult to achieve. But the good work will be started, and such laws will be finally passed. House bill 160, the infa^b^^pm^’ bine law, passed at the biddlng-Aof the Amalgamated-Anaconda oo^erj4ipbby two years ago, will be the^subjtect -0* attack. A bill to repeaT-^wiif sented. The Amalgalmat'ea^/lobby forced this law through thefleglsla'ture two years ago so the combine -could, absorb more corporations.'.. Availing itself of the law, which' provides that any corporation may absorb\ all oth ers in the state, the trust re-organ ized its Anaconda company and lifted its capitalization from $30,000,000 to $150,000,000, and took into this giant combine most of its did corporations and some new ones. Some of the ad vocates of the trust are saying that house bill 160 has served its purpose and that its repeal is a matter of in difference, yet for the good of the state an effort will be made to repeal it. During the campaign, this bill was used by various newspapers through out the state in attempts to' defeat legislators who voted for it and to re elect those who voted against it, with considerable success in both cases, yet at the time of its passage the Look out alone among the newspapers pub-* Ilshed its true character and fought against its passage. During the cam paign the copper trust succeeded in deefating some candidates for re-elec tion to the legislature who refused to support the bill two years ago, but others it failed to overthrow. Doubt less these others will take an interest in the repeal of the law. Primary election bills, and bills con forming to the Oregon law, providing a means for the people to express their choice of senatorial candidates, wifi be introduced in both houses, very likely, and the interests and the bosses in politics will kill them if they can, just asin previous years. Probably the capitalistic and political corrup tionists will again endeavor to use the republican senate against the demo cratic house, and vice versa, in a pre tense that the two can not agree'upon a primary law, but it is believed this disgusting sham will not be success ful this session. There will be bills for the regulation of short weights and measures, framed so they may be lnforced, and the Butte papers, report that the commer cial bodies there are having prepared a bill providing commission govern ment for cities. The counties of Mon tana now have the commission form, and if a city commission governed Butte no better than the county com mission has governed Silver Bow coun ty for years, the gain achieved by the change in form would hardly be per ceptible to the naked eye. At Butte the city and county have both been plentifully misgoverned, and yet, not withstanding the very numerous ex cuses offered by dozens of imagina tive persons who have benefited there by, never yea has the city’s misfor tunes been attributed to Its lack of a commlsison form of government, nor the county’s to that form. If such a bill is passed, the recall ought to be coupled to it. Some of the Butte pa pers are also informing the public that the gamblers of Sliver Bow coun ty will be att he capitol urging the passage of a county option gambling law. If the regulation of gambling were left to the counties the gamblers feel sure they’could gamble aa Butte, so they desire it left \to the counties. They hav a mask to cover their de sign; they wifi propose county option for the liquor traffic, and hitch gam bling to that. William Scallon’s anti- gambling law has brought gambling pretty well under hell at Butte, and every member of this legislature who has even and inkling of the labor In volved in that Herculean task, will al low the present law to stand. Mon tana is climbing the hill of progress; a county option gambling law would be a slide backward. Applicants Galore. Candidates for the position of deputy sheriff at Bak er are becoming as numerous as Sher iff-elect Levalley Could well desire to see. So far as 'the attention of the Sentinel has been called, 'the candi dates are Charles Ennis, Jess Sales, John I-lelfren, Sam Beard and John Truelson (Dutch John), the latter hav ing Just entered. Then there is the possibility of Deputy Sheriff Evans be ing retained, not to speak of Hugh Hunter, whom some think will suc ceed Mr. Evans os Baker’s peace of ficer. From ‘‘inside’’ informaiton it is understood the sheriff-elect has se lected two persons from whom be will announce hIs%cholco' later. Just who these two are the Sentinel is -not in a position -to divulge at,',this time—be- 'cau‘«« :it don’t know^-Baker Sentinel. V • ' •It is de- • 7 Tvii.- ' Subscribe-!or;the Journal o « voted to’’ thexlnterelks' of \Isma y and V icin ity A V 2 ^ TO LIVE NEAR ROUNDUP TW O W EALTH Y YOUNG LADIES FROM ILLINOIS W IL L COME OUT TO LIVE NEAR TH ER E. The Associated Press carried a dis patch Tuesday which appear§d in one of the Butte dailies, which is of more than ordinary interest to the ellglbles of this neck o’ the woods. Take note, ye bachelors who would fain forsake the single existence, of the following: Aurora, Il|!.t Nov. 27.—Miss Winnie Benschbach, whose father, William Benschbach, of Princeton, is one of the wealthiest men in central Illinois, and Miss Katherine Smith, daughter of Edwin E. Smith, also a wealthy resident of Princeton, have taken up claims in Montana and will soo go to a point sixteen miles from Roundup, Mont., to owrk their homesteads for fourteen months. i X H H K K n H u K K t O i H K H H l O - <4 <4 SCISSORS AND PASTE. <4 <4 D <4<4<4$4<4<4<400<4<4<4$-<4<4S4<4 From Montana Lookout. “The Mystery of Bonanza Trail,” by Frank J. Arklns, with illustrations by J. Richard Parry, is received by the Lookout from the General Publishing. Syndicate, at Denver, .Colorado. Mr;- Arklns is- the manager of the Billings Gazette, an fexperienced and exception-. ally capable newspaper man. The mystery involved in the title he makes clear in the book. The mystery he leaves heavily veiled is how anti when he found time to write a book, and why, with his wealth of material and facile pen, he did not do it long ago. It is a little volume, a pretty Vol ume, and a veritable bonanza of inter est to everybody with a liking for the romance of mining exploitation and adventure. The scenes are laid In Colorado, and with them as well as the characters Mr. Arkins became inti-1 ma^ely acquainted as a newspaper man and mining expert. The story might have been written in and of Montana, with many of the persons and most of the exciting Incidents ac cepted by residents of the state as fact rather than \fiction. The bdok is worth the price to buy it and the while to read It. ❖ *> ❖ From the Dally Missoulian. The prospects are good for a com mission form of government for Mon tana cities; the coming legislature will have the chance to make this better ment possible and wise men are shaping the proposed law. ❖ ❖ ❖ From {he Billings Gazette. The governors have finished their conference- down in Kentucky and they didn’t even get a rise cut-of Gif ford Pinchot. ❖ ❖ •> From the Wibaux Pioneer. ■_,] The woman who has a pug dog in stead of a child for a companion, has found her ’’afpnity.” * The !Ismay Journal, devoted to thq? interests of Ismay and vicinity; $2'-0t)' per year. i'- - ' --—• L-* - . ... . . . . . a t e ‘\'if * '“Vr’l ISMAY, MONTANA. Dv Our Store will be the (headquarters of Santa Claus m «-vs ■ •s Sale of Snowflake Graniteware Don’t forget our Sale of Snowflake Graniteware, 300 pieces to be sold at 50 cents. Pails, dishpans, wash-dishes, stew-pans; tea kettles, tea pots, rice cookers, in fact ttie assortment consists of almost everything ilsed in the kitchen. On September 3rd we will commence td distribute to our patrons a good .,dt»ablef't|ie^^ Djon’t. fail-to inspect our goods ihnd get oiir prices before buying. 5 — «. *• f • , • •'.’•Vi \-jgi I T , -r . J, -ifi Iri ’.V-\ if -5 * »•< „T”. sr-.j » •\*v: ‘ -• ‘'XT * £ . I,,,, , ' vK’v.y«iJir 'JV j c.'V vy. ^ * - - . - . -s1- -- V; W i f e
