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THE WINIFRED TIMES FIREMEN DEMAND INGREASEO PLIES 35 TO 65 PER CENT RAISE ASKED ON ALL ROADS IN U. S. AND CANADA 117.000 MEN ARE AFFECTED All Coal Burner Engines in Road Serv- ice Weighing 200.000 Pounds or Over Must Be Equipped With Mechanical Stokers Cleveland. .1,tig. 1k.- -A 15 to 65 per cent increase in wages is demanded for 117,000 firemen and hostlers on railroads in the 17ititeil States and Canada in a vage scale adopted be- fore aeljournitteid by 3011 general chain , Melt of the Itrotherhood of lawomotive Firelitelk and Enginemen in session here sinee 'fuesday. Another deniand to be presented to the director general of railroads is I hat all coal burning liwoniolINTS in resod -sr iii' weighing 200.(N NI pounds over shall he equipped with me - stokers and that two fire- men shall be 4.11'1)10) . 01 on all such locomen i es unt il they are Si' t•quipped. About half of the 541,4141 engines lit Iii,' I'Ili ell SI a tes Will Collie Illider this proposal, only about 5,(XN) (it which are equipped with meilianical .41okers at present. In :tempting the report of the Wage commission, appointed at die opening session last Tuesday aittl which only outipleted and presented its report Saturday owning, discussion of whirl' took up twai (lays' conference, some moelifications were rtiaisle but the re- peal was adopted in the ilialin part. The InOre Illiporlant sections of the report follow: Rates of tiny for firemen and help- ers Iii passenger Service, $41,50 joer day of 100 miles or less. exrept vlteii mallet eugines are used, when $7.;:11 shall be paid. Overtime in passt•nge.r serviee Will Ike eianputed soli the present basis. as 31 speed of 20 miles an hour. In freight SerVire oil engines %Veigle nig less thall 200,000 iiiiuiiuls, tirenieli- shall lie paid iial.541 mal sin eng; t i e s weighing over 200.000 pounds. $6.s0 per day of 100 miles or less. overtime 14k he computed (Iii present liasis. at at speed of 121,4 4 miles per hour. Firemen and helpers employed Iii local or way freight IlliXell trains, mine 1 • 1111, service shall be paid a ma vents per hundred utiles tft11 Iii the through frel Firemen empliiy sli er, transfer work 1:411 1.1111W plow, Or sit her trains in ma Is paid the 11 evord- ing to el . Firm engines Ill all . 1 . 11 . 411;111 pi buju. .iiiles or 11.44. A demand for time and one-half for mertime in all (lasses of SerViet , j4 lilade Utile,' will supply when men are usisi on Sundays or holidays. lit whin' to the dellianil (macerat- ing locomotives weighing over 2110,1X10 pounds 5 demand 111/1111 1 that all cool 1111 1 '11111g 141 CollIoliv es \Ian Ill\' weight shall equipped with itie- eliatileal foal passers. a device operated by steam 10 keep Ihe ea:11 within reach of the firemen. and that all coal burning liwonnifix - es shall he equipped with power grate shakers ansi atitotnattic lire door openers. It is estimated it will 1 . 11.0 $200.000.• 000 to equip the nwoinotives in the l•nited States with the different inti- elianleal devices demanded by the lire - mein. TWELVE THEORIES GIVEN FOR PREVALING PRICES Washington, Aug. 14- Twelve widely different reasons: for the high oast of Ii ving, were adValleed here yesterday. Here they :ire: President Wilson Senate delay in ratifying Ill , ' P 4'11, -e Senate's- Myers. Montana -Inflation of the otrreney. Senator Thomas, Colorado - High taxes eaused by the S1i1XX).1101.000 hill. Senator Smoot. Utah -Ileaay expor- tation of necessities. Senator MeCtiriiiiek. Illinois---)v- ernnsental extraVagainee. Senator Sherman. IlhuiIfiiS - profiteering. Senator Nli•Kellor. Temiessee--rold storage. Senator Kenyon, Iowa- The packers. Senator SIIIi111. Soul 11 ( 'a rol lust- Movic and flivvers. Senator Of-lino:1. North I)stkola--Too much wages for too few hours. IZepubin.an Leader Mitiniell - The Denim-rade partY. 'hump I 'lark --- 'rite Repot divan EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION MEETING IN WASHINGTON - - --- Tacoma. Wash.. Aug. 11. -The Illeill- hers of the National Editorial ittas0- ei.:iion arrived from Partlimil yester. day and wert• entertained at luncheon at tile Commercial dub. The party wan: taken in automobile -I to Long:mire Siwings where at llama , and receptitin was given. 'They will spend teslay at Ilewitt Italrter National park and will eeturn in the evening lib at a concert in the stadium here. The party will leave fur Seattle sifter the concert. SENATOR MlEAN Senator McLean of Connecticut in- trishiced a bill In require cabinet t»ent- ters, heads of the federal trade coin -- mission, tariff commission, civil service commis:dim and the bureau of effi- ciency to sit in the house and senate two days a weel( during lily st's'i\ 11 congress. There liwy Nvoillo I 111. 1/111.4. 1011141 1/11 1 III' floor regarding the con - di!, t i their Imre:ins. HENRY FORD AWARDED SIX CENTS DAMAGES IN SUIT • Law Provides Costs in Suit Where Nominal Damages Are Awarded Cannot Exceed Fifty Dollars 3Iomit Clemens, Nlieli, Aug. 10---A jury last night awarded Henry Ford six cents damages against the ('Iliicaq...en 'rribtme for yelling hint an anarchist. ()rvy Hulett. foreman of the jury, salt! that they took \nine ballots that I can remember.\ The first mine, :le - cording to Leonard Measel. another juror, stood eight Ito four in faVor of awarding 31i'. Ford some damages. Attorney Alfred J. Altirphy, for Mr. F'ord, said: \The important issue in this case lins been determined fail - orally to the plaintiff. Ile has been vindicated. -Money damages were entirely sub- ordinated allil N\ pre not sought by Mr. Ford. Ile stands not only vindicated. but his attitude as amn Amerienn citi- zen hos been justified after at trial which raised every issue against him which ingenuity and research (maid present. His friends are entirely sati:4- fled.\ %Veyinimili Kirkland of counsel for the Triliiine, said: cu insider it a vietory for the reason that Attorney Alfred Lucking. in elosing rot. Mr. Ford, stated that anything less than substantial dam- ages would In. a (lefeal ho rids elient.\ But $50 Costs. Mt. Clemens, 3lich, Aug. 16. -The amount id' costs that Henry l' . 11111 may receive from the I'lleago '1'nlanie in addition to the six cents damages awarded him by the jury which heard his libel suit will not exceed $50 i\ /H i er a l aw wh ere 11 „ ni n na l ( l ain ages are awarded. not more I liii tu costs emit he :Issesseil au:tiost the los- ing lo:1 rly. - DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW VETOED SECOND TIME President Wilson Says He Takes This Action With Utmost Reluctance.- Repassage of Bill Unlikely N1'sushi i Ii gtu itt ,Ais,. 16. -- President Wilson yesterila) 1 111(41 the bill re- pealing the daylight saving law. The president said he returned the bill without his approval with \the utmost reltietance\ beentise lie re- alized - the Very considerable and in Siiii1e 1'041111'1s Vi•O Si.1 . 10114 iii(.011Velli- eniitis I us a Iiii•11 the mho light slaving loW silideels the fanners of tile collli- try. - Deriaring the pressing need of the country (vas for produetion by Maus try. the president said he 11011 been obliged to Inlialive 011P ,414 Of 1111101 V111110 geS 11g/1 11S1 :1111011er, and decide which was the more serious for the country. The. prosid-::!'s message was sent to Speaker Iitillett, hut when an ef- fort was made to present it to the house. Representative Blanton, Demo- crat, Texas, made a point of no quo- rum, mid the house adjourned without the message being read. This was the second time the presi- dent has vented repeal mlf the law. White house officials and members if congress (\mild not recall a previ• ous instance (l; a president having A I lie same bill . Le:.ders III coligreSS mloilbt that the two-thirds. voles 111`11 . 11111'Y tip 11/1,:\: 1 Ile repeal IT1e/e411 re OVer the president's head cat/ Le oldailled WASHINGTON WILL NOT ANSWER MEXICAN NOTE Nvashiligton. Ang. No are:Wei to the reply of the Nlexican innern- mein to the state department's warn - big that foliar. to proles.? Americans might resin' in ai radical elainge of policy, will he made. Offielals ex- plained vcsterilti3 that the United States would wait until l'resident Car- ranza displayed either unwillingness Put' inability to afford Amerleans the proteetion they had a right to expect before taking further action. BOXING LEGAL IN STATE. ! DECLARES BOZEMAN JUDGE Jurist Says He is Not Bound by Rul- ing of High Court if He Does Not Agree With the Ruling Bozentain.--In the district (mart here, Judge B. B. Law held that there is no law in 31ontana to prevent 'amnia ••ontests since the Kiley ittw was ren- dered inoperative by - the referendum. 'flue question arose upon the habeas (.orptis proceedings for the release from the comity jail of Richmond Ilex, who was arrested, convicted and fined in the just ke eotirt for promoting a Mixing contest to be held August 13. Gex • was jailed after refusing to pay a fine of $50. Attorney \N . :liter S. 11 , a r n i . ) t ii t i ,. atii applied for a writ of lietheas („ In commenting, on the (amtention of counsel for the stale, who relied on tIII' M. Donlan case, which arose in Butte and was liechied by the supreme court iii 1914. Judge Law sal(' in sub- stance that he did not believe 111E, supreme court had the constitution of the slate of Ntontana in mind when it rendered the decision hi the Donlan ease and that he did not believe they would upheld the imsition they took If the matter were presented to them again. Ile further slated that lie did tai it believe he or any other person was bound by a decision of the supreme (marl, if he thought that decision was not right, mai further. that lie Wils: not !salad decision if he thought it conflieted with the omstitution, for the reason that the 1111111'111e 11,tirt is made up of \human mortals like our- selves from the bench and bur.\ BILLINGS WHOLESALERS CITED IN INFORMATION Fixing of Retail Prices and Discrim- ination Against Unruly Dealers Is Charged by Ford Billings.- -Fixing of prices which the consumer must pity rot. ids glaweries. discrimination against and refusal to sell retailers who failed to heed such fixed prices, and an unlawful combina- tion for the purposes of prohibiting and restrieting the sale of merchandise are alleged in tin information filed by County Attorney E. E. Collins in the district court here against the Kiel Orm•ery connpany, the Ryan (Iroeery onitiwity and the Stone-Ordean-Wells company. local wholesalers. The infor- mation Was signed jointly Ill Mr. Col- lins all Attorney Ileneral S. 1'. Fipril. The information charges Iliad the accused entered into an unlawful agreement not to sell to retailers who sold products handled by 111f , three 11)111panies for less than approved Drives. County Attorney Collins, In making the information public. point- ed out that the general charge of pro- hibiting and restricting the Salle' of inerelmnilise goes even farther than this in that it opens the door for ad- vancing primf of illegal methods of handling mereitantlise. Ile indicated that the information was the result of an investigation made by the al• torney general. SEEK BIDS FOR BRIDGES ACROSS MISSOURI RIVER Helot:J.-Bids for the vonstruction of two bridges across the Missouri river at Oreat Falls will be opened on August 25. estimated cost of the bridges is $467,000 and the money for tIt.' purpose was raised by a bond is- sue submitted to the voters of Cascade (-minty. The plans for the bridges 1114 1 11 approved and the construe- d 011 Work will he direeted by the engi- neers Of the commission. Building of 22 miles of highway in Yellowstone countv at fin expenditure of about $103,010 has been approved by the cianniission. according to all an- nouneement by Jilin N. Etly. assistant chief engineer, and the plans Ilsit e been forwarded to the federal bureau of public roads for final ttetion. The road project comes tual(n. the federal aid plan. OLD FORT TO BE USED AS REFUGE FOR NEEDY ilairre.--01(1 Fort Assinibolite, near here, may again be put to ii purpose akin to its use in the (lays when it was an outpost of defense against the Indians. Women and childiam, with their horses and cattle, luny be hous- ed there. while their Melt are abroad fighting their battles. If it few repairs ran be finaneed from private sources, aceording to a plan now under eonsideration, the fort probably will be used to house the families (if &twill stricken farm- ers of this district, while the fann- ers are working elsewhere for their support. It is believed they could be maintained more economically at the fort than in their individual homes. SCHOOL CONTRACT LET. Letvislown.-The high school board has awarded the contract for the erec- tion of the first imit of at new Itigh school building lo Inignint & of Billings, tlie pile° being $14-1,01NE Tlie contract for heating and plumbing went to E, .1. Kane of Lewistown. at $27.598. Work on the building is to be start- ed by September and it is to be com- pleted by August of next year. 'The board has the money available for the erection of tills unit. l jMONTANA NO1ES TREASURE STATE TALES TFRSF! Y TOLD ' 41,•1111ak.L.• .1. H. Hall, former , commissioner and promilletti railroad 1111111 all(' state official for a genera- tion, died last week in Spokane. Mn, Hall was appointed state commissitaler of agriculture, publivity and industry during the administration of Governor Ealwin Norris and served SIW1 . 1111 years in that cainicity. The remains were Interred at Helena. O 0 Effect of State Fire Nlarslial Men- strum's action reeently in eonilemning the Hawthorne school building at Lew- istown is seen in plans: for at new building sent in to the fire marshal Is)- the Lewistown school trustees. Mr. Menstrilin, in approving the plans ftir the structure, says the building will be one of due best in the state. O 0 Boyee 'Thompson of New York City, president of the Roosevelt Alemorial association, 11118 appanted Thomas A. Marlow of lielena chair- man for the Montsnai state (amintillee to co-operate with the national e0111- iiiittee in a nation-wide campaign. oc loher 20 to 27, for a $1 0 , 00 00 00 velt memorial fund. O 0 Construction ‘N , trk has begun on the first unit of the Nort h ,..,, stern p avh i ng company's plant at East Helena, and the contractors expect It. 1111 VI . the building nearly completed by the time Mailer sels hi, O 0 Applications for surveys on mineral claims in Montana, a step for obtain- ing patent, are more name -0(111s tills year Ilian in 1918, says Surveyor O. - m- oral Henry (Ieritierz. Earlier in the year it was predicted tlntt all records would be broken in 1919. O 0 I)istriet headquarters (if the fled Cross all :Minneapolis reports that the home service set -thins of the NIontatim chapters assisted more than 4.317 fam- ilies of soldiers :mil sailors in the month of 3lay, according to figures veceived from two-thirds of die home service sections in the state. O 0 Failure to (mainly with orders of the food and drug department iif the state hoard of health cost B. B. Raker or Neiltart $10 when arrested 1110111 Si complaint or W. I'. Hansen. an in- sPector or the department. Itaker oli - erates a bakery. lie had been noti- fied to make eertalit changes in his plant and methods. O 0 nest Helena residents have com- plained to the health authorities that government condemned horses killed at Canyon Ferry are brought lip the 11111 . 11er 111m, and fed tit hogs. Objec- tion is being raised that the smell of t i le meat 5111 ,1 hogs is Very strong and 11 Illellaee to Ille health of the commu- nity. O 0 Report S front 26 of the 50 eounties in Montana for the week eliding Au- gust 9 reveal a total of 14 cases of ty- phoid for the week. This is a slight increase, according to Dr. John .I. Sippy, slate epidemiologist. Follow- ing is a list of the diseases reported: Tolima-1114'Am, 2; diphtheria, 10; Scarlet fever, 3; measles. 5; intinips. 1; influ- :1; Husain:till , . 1; social diseases. 31; erysipelas. 1. O 0 The Rev. Leon II. Sweetland, it is annianiced in Helena, lins resigned as president of Montana Wesleyan rail- lege. Prof. A. C. Lemon will assume management of the faculty and tlie Rev. don•ge Mecklenburg will become bushiess manager of the institution. O 0 .1441111 O'Neill, 17, is in the city emer- gency hosintril at Butte on the verge of death from the effects of a (senate - (Ion presumed to have %tam givim him by bootleggers. O 0 Stilt for $15,000 damages has been brought hi the district court al Helena against Peter duillot by 'Ilitiodore Christianson, who alleges that the de- fend:int, through negligence, ran into mi tt with s in auto while he was riding ii motoreycle, and broke his leg and otherwise permanently injured him. O 0 ('. E. Martin Is heing lucid on 51.000 load 1111 , 11:11g1 . 4 of having a whiskey still itt his possession in according 1(t Robert E. tin, 11, , plity United Stales marshal. with headquar. he -I's in ilelenat. O 0 Forestry officials at Bozeman have refused the request of cattlemen to allow 111/1•1i to le1111110111111 gri11,1' with- in the area' of the 11:111:itiii reserve set aside for elk. O 0 lIontatia will receive enough tooneY under the recently signed federal agri- cultural appropriation bill to told $50 a 11 )11111 to due nininterianee of each Iii the 22 county agents in the state, according to Prof. I\ S. Costley. direC - tor of the aigrieultitral extension de- partment tif the 'Montana State col- lege. 0 Otwernor Sam V. Stewart's ear and one driven by Miss VIrginiii Dutton collided in Helena near tilt. Capitol. The Dutton machine was wrialied, but no tone W114 !flirt. The gOV1'1 11 \ 1.'s f 11111- ily was in ihe ear witlh tuba sit the time. O 0 int 1 i Vt , t if ite t r itt R s atj .‘ aiiie i r ne i s i , nt t i ig t h t iseht t i n u e 1 l 1 : s rin; ; 4 1: si.stant professor of 4 -titivation and psychology, and Edmund I,. Preeetan, :a graduate of Missouri Wesleyan. as an Instructor In English. have been added to the state university faculty. (115,4)11,11(l 11)(10hpl• 1, s patch. The intellig4 ever. will continue of the foreign off CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE '1. Chief Justice . White of the United States supreme eintrt has been slug- gested as the Anterivan represent:1114e iii the which will try the former kaiser ill 1,1111141111. WORLD NEE IN CEENSEU FORM thl' 111 1111 shill' , 11 'm II I English Purls are lu 1 \' \‘ tO Port algal. • * Ilrand Whitlock. United States min- ister to lielgitint, has arrived from lire,' on the liolland-American liner Nieuw Amsterdam. Mr. Whitliwk, who went abroad almost four y ea r, a g o . .411i11 that tiontlitions in Belgium are slowly approaching normal, oil Ii far- torieat resuming operations till a limited scale. 'rite rood situation. he said, ap- peared to be improNed sit Pr 1;1 ,4 1 Winter. • * General Simon Pethira. Ukrainian anti -Bolshevik leader. after having withdrawn his troops from the Polish front hats aittateked the Bolshevik' anti conquered Ilie important town of Zwerinka. Fourteen persons went. Minna! Mani a Missouri Pacifie mail train and a special \state fait\' passenger irain met in a heati-on collission ill at dense fog near Tipton, Nlir.. 3(4 miles west Of Jefferson City. The majority of those hurt were on the mail train. 1.1(41144unit James I). S1 pWsirt of 1'ark field, 'Mention's. anill II. Reed Campbell, a reporter employed by the Commercial Appeal, were killed when the army airplane in widen :hey IV ere giving exhibition flights fell matt . the ('nun It')' chili at Paducah. Ky. Tile pilot was attempting to inake am third loop when lie lost ...intro' or the ma- chine. The bodies were terribly bat- tered. * The Oerinan government has reject- ed the 'lent:dal of the allies for the reeall of Chiller:11 Voll der lloltZ, colll Mandel * Iui ellief of Orion:in lorces iui ,he Baltic provinces. * * 'flie Suez canal has been blocked by the sinking of the litaliam (raiser liasilicam after an explosion, acorril- ing t o oils ices from Port Said. Tlw cruiser sank near Te‘‘fik. The fferillaill general staff will be a Belli!) ills - seta iee, how - the direetion l'resident IVIlso :executive or- ders just made i directed the alien property it n tit sell :it panne auction shit eamtrol (if the custodian of the rd Meyer emu - patty of New Or 5, at byline+ of the 11:11is Steallislli Ile of New Ytirk. and to reject all for 'the roceittly offer4s1 shares of the C. 1. Onerz American ()laical (1111111;111)'. A strike of 12,01(10 Interior decorators has lieen called ill New York. The strikers are demanding :1 rive -day working week of 40 hour , al $1 an hour. Tlit•y are now receiving $6 a day for a 44 -hour weal:. 'et It: The grand jury whirli investigated the Chien() race roots relortied dietments against :10 liegroes and 17 whites. The Maly of .tridrew Carnegie. aim died at LeirimiX, MISS.. AV:11 takeui 10 Sleepy Hollow, 'farrytown. N. .1., for burial. No funeral services were held in New York City. * xi Aeeording to at Russian liewspaper published in Berlin the bolsheviki ha recaptured Riga. • * The actors' strike, which has 'instal several of New 'York's large theaters, has spread to Chiengo. 'flu\ Cori the- ater :mil Colian's grand opera house were closed after the pltlicipals 1111(1 of the casts announeol they would not ii 011 the stage. • * .k middle aged woman leaped tor fell to her death from the top of the 17 - story Chancellor Ilotel in Son lerati• else°. In a handbag she left with some of her effects on the roof was a receipt for nurse's dues at at local hospital made out to Anna tioodman TAXES ARE LOWER: VALUES INBEASE0 MONTANA LEVY TO BE 4 19 MILLS, STATE EQUALIZATION BOARD ANNOUNCES NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY State Board of Health Organizing for Battle With Influenza During Corn- ing Winter. -Senator Cone Is Named Market Director lieleita.--wio, a reduction of Oat, mill one-half mills, the state tax levy Will 111. foal' auuuut 19-10 DIMS 011 all 1111 .11 1/ 1. 1 .1 1;1X111111 . 111 Ms,uilaunhm, 1 . 111 11 M hug adoption of Ilw levy by the state board of equalization. The board lue- decided to call lut 45 of the 5411 county assessors ill Motif alla for it general meeting lin August 25 for the Purpose of sou:illy equalitnig the assessed val- uations throughout the state. following the report iit' sill ais - sessors' Total %ant:Ilion of all prilti.rty as- sessed in Montana this yanir increivied ':!S2.6 pew cent. jumping froA 111,11S4 itt 11115, 10 $1.438,14.4113 iii 111111. itcrording lip al compilativii oi all 1'011111Y ;11s1.44111'4' figlires by Mr. 1`4- gertoti. Figures !impaired on assessments.in the various counties show great di - Veil:price ill the values assessed 1111 land, livestock and uuli other items in the taxable list. The state tax levy as decided linotl, by the stale board of equalization for all purposes, totals 4 and. 19-45) • Z. divided as follows: Livestock commission fund, one milt. Livestoek sanitary board. State purposes, (general levy) I so and otw-lialf mills. • Interest and sinking fdellyiefor re- d.-plinth/11 14 state bonds, lark' Of11111. one -quarter mill. State Insane and tubereulomis saill- 1:11111111S, one -twentieth mill. TaitereSt and slaking fund on bonds of special session. 1411i assembly, 111111 . - eighth mill. Veterans' welfare commission ion, - twentieth mill. This levy is a reduction of two and one-half mills by the elimination of I former bounty fund levy. Assessors' figures, showing the re- sult of their work this year in Montana. present VaSt differences from the Vt11- 11e4 last year and also different -es be.- tween the various 1 . 1,untles. In the comparison of total valuations 113.4 piled ilk the office of the state boat . 11 of eeinalizattion, :Montana's total as- sessed valuation in 1918 WaS $509.209. - 084. and in 1919 it juinped 282.6 per cent, with a total of $1.438,875,613. An idea of the difference its assessed val- uations under the lieW tliX laws and the old is shown in the increase hi SilVer Bow county frotn $50,354,1400 in 1918 to $121,523,160 this year, and of the percentage of literease of 425.8 in Fergus county. whicit jumped front $25.227,025 to $107,825.006. Montana's total acreages Including coal and all other lands except town lots, totaled 40075,912 in 1915 and in 1919 ilierea,(91 2,000,4/00 acres; odd to 43,567,871 acres, showing as 114.1 iii- cresse in all vounties of 2.491.962 acres and at decrease iti all counties of 660. 076. Fergus led In Increased acreages with tin n141'03054 . of 443,531 acres more in 1919 than last year, at jump from 2,486,929 to 2,930,460. The greatest loss In tterenge wits in l'ellowiaittie /sanity, which dropped 466,8441 acres. * * * To Wage Battle on Flu. The state hoard of health plan , In use free bacti•ria to battle influenIza this winter. A reeurrence of the mal- ady, though it is hoped In at milder form. is expected. Nlirsekm ilre 111 111 . mobilized soon under the Red Crete,. and a campaign of eduenlititt will Iii' begun, hr. W. K. Cogswell. secretana of the state board of health; 10..1..1. Slopy, state epidemiologist. anil Dr. E. D. Ilitchenek, state hocteriologist. are a n aorbItig on the matter. * * * Cone Is Market Boss. Frank ( * (111e 111 . H11111111011 11111 he, 11 :appointed State Market director by the newly eroded Montana trade (manias - !don. 31r. Celle is Kellator front vain colltdy. Ile stIll be in elttirge 1 , f field work of the eimunission. The salary is $3110 ti month. Mr. Cato. issu merchant of hong experienee. • * * Pays Royalty in Gold Dust. It has been many a year slits -u' eity taxes or lease royalties have 144 -en paid in gold dust in Nlorilithat. Recent - son has been paying in gold (lust, over the iamitter of a batik_ the elty's 10 per 1 . 1411t royalty on the gold Ile htas 1111111 . 11 III the heart of Ilk•lella. * * * Wounded Vets Will Go to Fair. All wounded service Ills n deadril i t make the trip are to he brought I Montana Slate fair and victory exposi lion its honored guests by the veteran , ' welfare commission, appointed to id Minister die funds appropriated It ila• hiSt re:41118r ses , iliti of the 141:1-1:11nre II Was kintionlieed 111 Ilettilkithirh•rl . o1 the American 1.4.gion of 31iinitina It' (ler whose auspices the first slate re union of soldiers. sailors and imirsi• - will be held in ponjunction with III.. victory exposition celebratlion. The plan is approved by (lovernor Stewart. •
