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• , Sanders County Democrat 'VOLUME I. PLAINS. MONTANA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1910. NUMBER 13 SUMMARY OF NEWS SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM DAILIES. NEARLY ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD ARE REPRESENTED HEREWITH. Grip is again epidemic in New York, bringing in its train increased death rate. Fire destroyed the store house of the Dolores Mines company at Maderia, Mexico, recently,. Loss $100,000. Dr. A. Ii, Martin of Dillon, one of the best-known ministers of Montana, dropped dead Sunday night following a wedding. At Odessa an imperial rescript has been published giving the deposed shah of Persia. titles 'of \shah' and ''majesty' in Russia. Nelson, B. C.—Never since steamers have plied on the mountain lakes, for the last score years, has ice appeared so early as this year. That President Diaz has planned to establish a protectorate over Central America is a rumor current in semi- -official circles in Mexico City. William Dobson, cashier, and Paul S. Whistler, arrested for connection with the $14,000 Canadian Express company robbery November 4, plead guilty. Sacramento, Cal., has been selected as the next convention city of the West- ern Jobbers' association. John M. Walker of Denver was eleeted presi- dent. When James J. Jeffries ends his pres- ent tour of 10 weeks of exhibitions the amount of money he will be enriched, according to conservative estimates, is 454,000. Rev, William Stuckey, the ex -minis- ter of Williamsburg, Kan., who has been on trial charged with abducting Lorena Sutherland, his 18 -year -old par- ishioner, was found guilty. It is unofficially ,announced that a special session of the Kansas legislature will be called to enact a new bank gear- mnty la* to conform to the decision of United States Judge Pollock. The Standard Oil company has an- nounced a reducation of 15 cents a bar- rel in the prices of refined oil, making refined in eases, $10.30; refined in tanks, 44.40, and standard white, $7.90. Captain J. B. Milton, who has been in command of the receiving ship. Inde- pendence at Mare Island navy yard, Dias been made commandant of the navy training station at San Francisco. The London Times says that if Sec- retary Knox can pave the way for the neutralization of the Manchurian rail- road he will render a splendid service to the cause of international amity. In a struggle with two safeblowers, Paul Simla, 17 years of age, who was left to watch the Talahasse, Fla., post office building, shot and killed them both in the basement of the building. Railway officials assert that many of the leading spirits in the strike, includ- ing those who left good positions to take up the fight will be refused em- ployment for all .time by the Hill inter- ests. It is officially announced that the em- peror of Russia has canceled the name of Witte street, recently given to one of the avenues by the city council, and bas ordered it to be rename. \The street of Peter the Great.\ Mary K. Weber and Kathryn Schwarz, who conducted a dressmaking establishment in Chicago under the name of Madame Whitnew, were charged with \sleeper trunk\ smug- gling in the circuit court in New York recently and fined $7,500 each on a plea of guilty. With an increase of 29.6 per cent in the value of building construction in Portla.nd during the past year over that of 1908, all previous record, in Port- land have been surpassed. Buildings for which permits have been issued by Building Inspector Dobson during 1909 total the enormous sum of $13,479,180, as against $10,405,151 for 1908, a gain of $3,074,029. MIXUP IN INDIAN DEPARTMENT Ballinger Suspends Superintendent Ben- edict and Three Supervisors. Seeretary Ballinger of the interior de- partment has suspended from office Superintendent John I/. Benedict of the Five Civilised Tribes of Oklahoma and three' suifiertinors, after an investigation that has disclosed a \disgraceful condi- tion affecting the material welfare of the sehools.\ As a reeult of the investigation the the interior department has been carry- ing on for some time and which will be continued, other officials of the Indian service may suffer a like fatø to that of Superintendent Benediet and the three supervisors already suspended. The investigation that resulted in this action was begun because of reports charging the officials already .suspended as well As others with activities im- proper for government employee. The suspended supervisors are Calvin Ballard of the Choctaw schools at Mc- Alister, Frederick H. Umholtz of the Chickasaw schools at Ardmore and Wal- ter Fallowell of the Creek schools at Muskogee. Before any further action is taken in their cases the four men will be allowed to answer the charges before the sec- retary oi the interior. FOR MORE FARM WAREHOUSES. Farmers' Union Plans to Divide Howles Into Groups to Operate With Central Agency. One of the most important moves to be made by the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative union during the pres- ent year, according to State President L. C. Crow, is the districting of the warehouses owned or leased by the union in the greed jurisdiction, which comprises Washington and the pan- handle of Idaho. The plan is to form five or six dis- tricts, with a central selling agency in each district, the agency to be located in the commercial center of the dis- trict. The central agency in each dis- trict will be in close touch with the Coast agency, and the manager of each warehouse in tfle district will in turn be kept advised of conditions of the grain market through the central agency. 'The central agencies in the five or six districts will have control of the entire warehouse system of the union. Each agency will have control of the warehouses in its territory, while the heads of agencies will form a board of directors. Where the locals do not, or can not, own or operate a warehouse the mem- bers will store their grain in the old line houses and mark it, reporting to their local secretary as to the amount stored, who, in turn, reports to the cen- tral selling agency in the district. The warehouse business, as handled by the union during the last year, has been successful beyond expectation and has saved the farmers no little money. Much of the grain held until prices ad- vanced was held in union warehouses and, under advice of leaders in the union, who were keeping in close touch with conditions through the agency on the Coast - The union in eastern Washington, President Crow says, is increasing in membership rapidly. EXCURSION HUGH SUCCESS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TRIP IS A HUMMER. — — Eight Cars Comfortably Filled With the Beat People From Inland Empire and Pacific Northwest. Two hundred, and possibly more, happy people will leave Spokane Mon- day, January 17, at 8 p. m. on the third animal Midwinter California Excursion. Practically all berths and drawing rooms in the eight cars have been sold, a few berths only remaining. The Spokane Chamber of Commerce and the 0. R. & N. company are to be congratulated on their success with and the manner in which these annual excur- sions to California are arranged. Every convenience is made for a comfortable and enjoyable trip. Every side trip and the entertainment at various places where stops are made are arranged for in advance, so there can be no delays or overcrowding. In giving each couple a section:tyro berths the cars cafiuot be crowded, affording opportunity for an enjoyable ride while on the train. A few berths are available, and any- one desiring accommodations should apply to II. C. Munson, C. T. A., 0. R. & N. Co., 601 Sprague, by wire or in person. FARMER BOY'S CORN. Professor Thatcher of State Experi- ment Station Gets Report in Growing Contest Professor Thatcher of the state ex- periment station at the State college is receiving reports from the boys who entered the boys' corn growing con- test, inaugurated from the farm trains last spring. In connection with the 0. R. & N. company the stete college presented seed corn to•the boys of Whitman, Garfield, Columbia and Walla Walla counties to be used in the con- test. A sweePtakee prize for the beat yield of corn of $100 was offered, and in each of the counties prizes of $40, $30, $20 and $10 were hung up for the best yields. Three prizes for the beet 10 ears of cern from the competing tracts were offered of $5, $3 and $2 respectively. None of the reports shows lee* than 30 humihele to the acre and will averake above that figure. The beet report received to date shome b 76.4 bushels to the sere. This young farmer, in a certified re- port, shows that previous to planting his tract he worked the ground over nine times and after the torn) was planted the tract was cultivated five times. Committees have been appoint- ed in , path locality and tarots' report is vouched for. NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS NOTES SELECTED FOR BUSY READERS. ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN MONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON AND WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON ITEMS. The State Federation of Labor con- vention convened at lloquiam this week. Hay lands have been active on the Spokane market during the last few weeks. The commission plan of government for the city of Spokane may be voted upon early this year. Editor N. W. Durham of the Spokes- man -Review is to be appointed minister to Portugal, according to reports. With the rapid growth of Dayton's public schools in the last three years, the problem 'of new buildings confronts the directors. Colonel William Ridpath and Charles B. Dunning of Spokane, who started on a trip around the world on the last day of September, are on their way from Hongkong to Manila. Thieves recently removed glass from the rear window of the Reese Hardware company building at Sunnyaide, and re- moved 10 shotguns and ammunition. Approximately one-fourth of Colum- bia county's grain crop of 2,500,000 bushels is being held by farmers for speculative purposes in the warehouses at shipping points. Twenty seven money sacks, crammed with small silver coins amounting in all to about 4300, mysteriously disap- peared recently from thescar bars of the Traction company at Spokane. Freight and passenger rates to south- eastern Alaska, which were reduced three months ago by the three big com- panies with the purpose, it is alleged, of driving the steamer Humboldt off the run, have been restored to the old figures. According to the annual report of State Fish Commissioner Riseland, 75,- 100,000 salmon fry were liberated in the streams during the past year by the 17 state fish hatcheries. This -num- ber exceeds by several millions any pre- vious year's hatch. Contending that the—rapidly increas- ing coat of living justifies and necessi- tates a larger scale of wages, the union carpenters of Spokane have decided to raise their scale, and after April 11 will demand 50 cents more per day, making the daily wages for experienced men $5 per day. Called, he confidently believes, by a direct communication from Christ, George T. Lord, a well-known dentist of TACO1118, who has one of the largest Practices in the city, will sell out his business and devote his life and money in missionary work in Oautemala City, Central America. Game Warden J. V. Brown of Co - cur d'Alene has received 16 pairs of Chi- nese pheasants to be distributed throughout Rootensii county. They come from the preserve at Boise, it being intended to stock every county of the state with Chinese pheaaante. Mr. Brown will bold the birds until the weather moderates before freeing them. Medical certificates will be made out for 81 medicos who took the state ex animation at Spokane recently. Many successful candidates will receive their certificates at once, while others will be obliged to wait for at least a month, according to Dr. F. P. Witter, president of the state board of medical examiners. The next examination will take place in Seattle in July. There were 26 un- successful candidates in the Spokane test. Sealed bids for Indian allotment lands in the Sinlahekin valley a few miles south of Loomis, have been opened by CAptain Webster of the Colvifle agency at Fort Spokane. The Sarearpkin allot- ment, containing 1,931 acres, was pur- chased by T. Fidelt Oates of Portland. The Comstock Penile allotment of 550 acres, and the Julia Veeil allotment of 350 acres, were bid in by Mrs. Lettn Lerbowich of Portland, A. L. Miller of Jefferson, Ore., and George J. Hudley and .1. F. Porde of lboomis. The land is in the narrow vale of the Sinlahekin creek. IDAHO JOTTTNOS.2 In order to make a stronger institn tion and to economize the Bank of Troy, Idaho, and the Find Bank of Troy Were coneolidsited recently, and from now on will be known as the First Bank of Troy, with a capital of $20,000 and surplus of $2000. William Thompson of Wilbur, Wash., deputy state bank examjner of Wash- ington, is to/be cashier of the Leiriston National bank, which was recently taken over by the Union Securities eomporny of Spokane. P. F. Bartlett, regietrar of the United State land (Mire at Lewiston, has re - (mired notice of his reappointment. Gilbert M. Butterworth of Seattle has received his commission from the national headquarters of the Foresters of America in New York, appointing hint deputy supreme chief ranger for the state of Washington. The Washington county assessors met in Spokane this week. The Portland Franchise in the North- western baseball league goes to Bel- lingham. Senator Jones says he had not yet given consideration to the appoint- ments for eastern Washington- and probably would not take up the cases for several weeks. The first mid -year -graduating exer- cises of the Cheney state normal school will be held on Friday evening, Jan- uary 21. Two saloon licenses have been re- voked at Sprague by the city council for irregularities. An ordinance is to be introduced at Pullman requiring the removal of snow from sidewalks. The fourth annual meeting of the Western Pine Manufacturers' associa- tion was held at Spokane this week. President James A. McLean of the University of Idaho has gone to Den- ver, Chicago, Washington, D. C., and his old home in Montreal, Canada. A boys' vested choir of the Episcopal church at Wallace was organized early in the winter by the Rev. Pembroke Reed, rector. Plans are now on foot to reclaim ap- proximately 40,000 acres of overflowed lands along the St. Joe river, dredge the mouth of the Spokane river and lower the water in all tributaries to the lake. This is the result of a recent meeting of settlers living along the St. Mary's and St. Joe rivers. Land purchases aggregating 2,800 acres and representing an investment of $185,000 have been made in the Lew- iston country. The Snowstorm Mining company dc. dared a dividend Monday of $22,500, payable January 20. After having beaten his wife's head to a pulp with the butt of a rifle in the presence oi three little children and then chucked her body through a trap door into the cellar, Joe Vigue, a rancher, who has been on trial at Sand- point for the last week, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. 'to etre orchards from damaging frosts merchants of Lewiston and Clarkston have started a move to raise $5,000 to purchase fire pots, to be kept burning_ in orchards during the frost periods. 'The plan is to let out the pots to fruit growers deemed worthy, and then after the crops are reaped collect the pay for them and reimburse those contributing to the fund. Mrs. Laura E. Loftus was bound over to the district court on a charge of mur- der in the first degre4 and confined in jail without bail by Justice Henry Cum Tiling' of Moscow. Mrs. Loftus killed her husband with a double-barreled shot gun. It is said that the student body of the State Normal school at Lewiston has a greater average mileage than in any other normal in the United States. The increase in enrollment this year as compared with January, 1909. is re- markable, being 45 per cent. The see - 'aid semester opens February /. MONTANA NEWS. Montana is to have a new railroad, whose operations will be confined ex- clusively to Cascade and Lewis and (lark counties. The three prisoners who escaped from the Choteati county jail at Port Benton a few days ago were captured and re- turned to the jail. According to information from a semi-official source, Kaliapell is to have the first machine gun platoon in Mon- tana under the Dick law relating to the national guard. All efforts to find Arual Morley, an aged civil war veteran, lost in the mountains, was abandoned when the lost man was traced out on the ice of Swan lake. Ile haft been missing since Deeember 20. Morley is an uncle of Railway Commissioner E. A. Morley of Butte. The I4 -year -old son of T. Tibbetts, a teamster of Avon, was accidentally killed recently. The boy and a younger brother were playing in a room and kneeled a loaded revolver from a shelf, the weapon exploding and killing the elder boy instantly. The West Shore Navigation company of Kalispell, which recently bought up the stock, and with it the steamer Mon- tana of the Flathead Navigation com- pany, is to adrra second craft early in the spring, in a gasoline, twin-screw boat, 76 feet hang, for excursions. All motive power on the Montana railroad, a subsidiary of the Chicago, - Milwaukee & Puget Sound road, extend- ing from Harlowton to Lewietown, com- prising five engines and several snow ploww, was stock in the snow and dead Sunday. Lewistown was without train for a week - . In a last effort to scents government funds for the dredging of Flethead river and the harbor at Poison, Secre- tary W. B. Rhoades of the Kalispell chamber of commerce has compiled fig- ures showing the traffic *ernes the lake during the last season, which has been found, aimeording to a detailed report made by United States Commissioner Bailey, to amount to 029,277. PINCHOT \FIRED\ PRESIDENT TAFT WAS REAL MAD AT HIM. CHIEF FORESTER MADE ATTACK ON TAFT IN HALLS OF CONGRESS. • Washington. --Gifford Pinchot, chief forester and intimate friend of Theo - doze Roosevelt, has been dismissed from the service of the United States by President Taft for insubordination. Associate Forester Overton W. Price and Assistant Law Officer Alexander c. Shaw, Pinchot 'a immediate assist- ants in the forestry bureau, followed their chief out of government employ. Thoroughly indignant over the action of Mr. Pinchot in inducing Senator Dolliver teeread a letter from him in the senate, President Taft would listen to no advice that the forester's viola- tion of executive orders be overlooked pending the inquiry soon to be under- taken by congress. He declared the dignity of the presidential office was being attacked and he would be un- faithful to his trust if he submitted longer. Mr. Taft undoubtedly realizes fully what the dismissal of Forester Pinchot means in a political way. He has been convinced for some time that the w- eaned \insurgents' and other critics of his administration had enlisted the services of Mr. Pinchot and prestically were defying him to dismiss Pinchot from office. The latter's letter of yes- sterday, few here doubt, was written with the direct purpose of \putting it squarely up to the president.\ The president sought to avoid the threatened war as long as he could, but declared that patience had ceased to be a virtue, lie picked up the gaunt- let of battle thrown deep by Mr. Pinchot through the hand of Senator Deaver in the senate, and, with the administration supporters, is ready for the coining fray. Pinchot to Fight. Gifford Piuchot, who was removed from office by President Taft as chief forester, made it clear later in ad- dresses to the officers of the forestry service and the clerks of that,, organ- ization that his battle with the secre- tary of the interior and the adminiatra- tion was not ended. Declining to ex- press a personal opinion about his re- moval from office, he also refused to discuss business plans for die future. Mr. Pinchot arrived at his office early in order to arrange his affairs and withdraw as quickly as possible. A meeting of the officials who had been under him had already been ar- ranged for 10:15 o'clock, and three- quarters of an hour later the clerical force of the forest service arrived in his , office to say goodby. ' In addressing those with whom he had been most intimately associated Mr. Pinchot declared be wanted them to remember, first, that they must never forget that \the fight in which you are engaged fer the safe and de- cent handling of our timber lands is infinitely larger than any moan's per- sonal present or personal future.\ Pinchot 's Annual Report. In his annual report, Gifford Pinchot shows the total expenditures made on account of the forestry service for the fiscal year ended June 30 last to be $3,938,297, while receipts from all sources credited to the forestry service aggregated $1,807,270. This latter amount was derived largely from graz- ing privileges and sales of timber. The report gives an exhaustive re- view of work done by the forestry service and is replete with statistics. It says the total stand of natural for- est timber reported last year as 390,- 000,000,000 feet was increased in the year by' 10,000,000,000 feet. This does not include the timber in the two na- tional forests in Alaska, extent of which is unknown. Mr. Pinchot says that 8,000,000,000 feet of lumber are destroyed annually by insects, fungi and borers. The total area of the national forest reserves is 194,505,3V acres. gaWnger Not Afraid. \I have nothing to fear from a thor- ough determination of the facts,\ says Secretary Ballinger. \I may have com- mitted errors of judgment in one way or another, mut any man might while in the public service, but I am firm in m3\ knowledge that no improper motive has ever influenced me in any action I have taken.'' The secretary remarked that he not only wanted to have his own conduct Investigated but desired also to have the same COOfee followed \ifi relation to the other fellow.\ Broken Rail Caused Wreck. A broken rail caused a derailment three miles east of Ellis, Kan., of west- bound Union Pacifies passenger train Saturday. The engine and six ears left the track. Seven passengers and two mall clerks and five dining car employes were hurt, none seriously. HULL WANTS FOR ARMY p5,812,718 Objects to Statement by Tawney That Wars Cost Nation 72 Per Cent of Revenue. \The wonderful results of the civil war are responsible for the enormous cost to the nation annually of wars past and to come,\ declared Mr. Hull of Iowa, in . explaining the provisions of the army bill, which calls for an ap- propriation of 893,612,718. • Mr. Hull said the army and navy cost the United States not more than $255,000,000 annually. He took ex- ception to a statement made by Chair- man Tawney of the appropriations com- mittee that wars past and those being prepared for were cfsting the nation 72 per cent of its net revenues annually. The $120;000,000 given auaually in pensions, Mr. Hull said, should not be included as a war cost, being rather a charity, lie justified the enormous amount ISO splknt because the result of the war which made the appropriation necessary was to keep the republic in- tact. Had there been any other result, he said, the country eventually would have been divided into half a dozen re- publics, none of them important enough to command the respect of the world powers. IMPROVE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE President Taft Approve Plan Suggested By Secretary Knox. To Oiprove the personnel and effici- ency of the diplomatic service and to encourage secretaries of legations to qualify for promotion to the rank of ministers, President Taft has approved a plan suggested by Secretary Knox and he publishes it as an executive order. The new project provides for aboard of examiners to pass upon all applicants for appointment as secretaries and pro- vides the standard to be maintained. Sderetary Knox, in a letter submitting his plan to the president, points out the remarkable growth of the political and commercial action of the United States in foreign nittioue, and the increasing difficulty of the problems to be dealt with. Records of efficiency of all the under secretaries will be preserved in the state department and appointment from out- side the service to secretaryahips will be made only to the class of third sec- retary of embassy, Cr, in case of higher vacancies, or second secretary of lega- tion; or of secretary of legation at posts which have assigued to them only one secretary. Vacancies in secretary of the higher classes in the future will be filled by promotion from lower grades and effi- ciency and ability demonstrated in the service will be the test of hdvancement. All the secretaryships in the future will be graded according to the import- ance or difficulty or other aspects of the word done at each mission, and these classifications will be made known to the services. In the oral examination, candidates must demonstrate alertness, general contemporary information, natural fit- ness for the service, address, command of England and general education. A physical examination will be supple- mental. Candidates must be between 21 and 50 years of age. From the successful candidates appointment lists will be sup- plied, and from this will be chosen. The department will aim to apportion representation fairly among states and territories. LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION Re-elected Clagstone President and Other Officers. Washington Livestock association closed its sixth annual meeting in Spo- kane on January 5 by re-electing Paul Clagstone of Clagstone, Idaho, to the presidency, and Dr. S. B. Nelson of Spo- kane, as secretary and treasurer. F. M. Rothrock of Spokane was named a dale gate to the convention 9f the National Livestock association at Deifver, and Orangeville, Idaho, was chosen the con- vention city for 1911. Support of the association to the country life commission plan was given with the appointment of a committee competed of R. H. Jones of Orange- ville, Idaho; Duncan Dunn of Wapato, Wash., and Peter McGregor of this city, to confer with the governors of Wash- ington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon in the furtherance of the plan. By resolu- tion the name of the orgenizatien was changed to the Northwestern Livestock association, the annual dues increased from $2 to $5. The new organization will include the stockmen of Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Naahington, Under the direction of Dr. R. B. Nel- son, state veterinarian at the Washing ton State college veterinary hospital in Spokane, a weekly market report will be issued in pamphlet form for the bene- fit of the membership in studying stock conditions. For Agriculture, $13,000,000. The house committee on agriculture will give the agricultural department of the government approximately $13,000,- 000 to run it during the twining year, according to the estimate of the sub- committee of that body, which has fin- ished work on eonsideretion of the bill. s - C •
