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THE WINIFRED TIMES --1 ithli rims TEST SJI IN 'DV RON ATTORNEY GENERAL DECLARES POWER COMPANY PROPERTIES VALUED AT EIGHTY MILLION NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY Montana's Supreme Court Formally In. creased to Five Judges by Two New Members Taking Oath of Office and Assuming Duties Helena.- Assurance that the tax controversy which has arisen in the state board of equalizatbin over the assessment of the Montana I'ower I'0011.:1111Y rind other public service cos - positions will be parried in, the Sit - I COMI WilS given by Attorney General S. C. Ford. who assailes the +piston of the other members in a formal statement. He characterizo Ii eir posithm as \absurd. ridiculous and unfair to the taxpayers of the sta.\ The equalization board is composed of Governor S. V. Stewart. Secretary of Slate Charles T. Stewart, Treasurer 11. L. Hart. State Auditor George I'. P4)rter and the attorney general. The controversy centers over the assessments of the Montana Power tsamitany. Aeeording to figures saffi- eintily given out at the office of' the board of equalization, this company paid taxes in 1918 on a valuation of S1t),739044. This year the valuation was, raised to X:C.2.3910112. Under the state's new classified property law. the company this year will pay taxes on 30 per cent of the assessed value of it great part of its property and 41' per cent on other parts. The entire amount On Wdliell it is to pay taxes under the ilecislon of the board of equalizatiou is $10.169.790, it retitne. thin from last year or s7,69,s9s,. spirited person,d exchanges onions members ef the board and the atter- no.3- general were featilres of ths meeting at which the asSeSSMent HaS decided upon. \Returns wit jilt have been made hs Ito' :Montana Power company to the state piddle servive commission indi• cate that they pimp a vain:1114m of $80,000.01N) upon their prOperl les,\ says Attorney General Ford in his state went. * * * Price Fixing Char Complaints charging pria - discrimination have been the Libby Yards compaf eoneern tolerating n sir yards, by Assistant .111 Otto Girth. Two (secs One Seeks to ens\ i in criminal proc, fine of from $1. tided. and ti itg and gainst miter retail leneral tattled lanpany which a )00 is pro - it that the eompany's corporate existent it he dis- solved and that it lie prithibited from operating in Montana. These . eases make a total of eight brought against alleged eombinations by Attorney General S. C. Ford and members of his staff. Two each re- cently were filed against the Stone- ordean-Wells eompany. the Ryan Griteery eollipany and Kiel Brothers at In the case of the Libby Yards' com- pany. It is alleged that unfair practices are being resorted to in a drive to eliMillate a Snail independent com- petitor at Homestead. In Sheridan ii ui'nil y. Mr. Clerth has investigated the situation and makes the rharge that the Libby company is selling its lumber far below the wholesale !wive at Hotnestead. while at Antelotte and at Fruit]. one on each side of Home- ste: d on the Great NIwthern railwny. the customary retail price is main- tained, although :It From it has coos petition from another big concern op- erating U string of lumber yards. The complaints are filed at Plenty wood. In Sheridan county. * * * State Fair Lotteries Pinched. Ilk mot piled high with gaming de vices of various kinds. and the empty roll rooms filled with blankets, dons. hams. bacon, candy. watelles. jewelry :Ind similar lines of merehandise. Sher- iff Huffaker of Lewis and Clark coun- ty hits the oddest array of goods ever SPI7eil hi the county. The stuff was taken from 11 conces- sions at the State fair by county peace officers acting directly under the or- ders of Attorney General S. C. Ford, who enfor „, 41 the inw ngninst . \ gawps of chance, wheels of fortune\ and simi- lar games to) the letter, to the (liseom- Mitre of many state fair officials and the owners of the eoneessions. In all, 11 owners were arrested. They Were held on complaints filed in Helena justice enlists by Attorney Gen- eral S. C. Ford and all of them were released on furnishing $201) bonds. * * * Twenty-five Tons Hay Burned. Twenty-five tons of hay belonging to Charles If. Martion. Lewis and Clark county assessiir, were deStrOyed on his ranch in the Beaver creek lootlity. north of Helena, by the re- cent fairest fire in that regiim, accord- ilig to reports brought to Helena by the Helena forest officials. The fire fighters Mallaged to keep the flames from taking the buildings on the Mar - flea rands The hay was half a mile from the buildings and in order to \each the stacks the conflagration srosaed a mowed meadow. HENRY L DUHERTY . \*.:1•4: 'bolo b One of America's higgcsi business geniuses is Henry L. Doherty. The day President Garfield was assassi- nated he made $5.48 selling extras. Today he is president of the Cities Service company, it $200,01$1,000 cor- poration etaitrolling 21 XI gas and elec. tric COMpallies ill nearly every slat( In the United States, EXODUS OF FOREIGNERS GREATLY EXAGGERATED Immigration Commissioner's Statement Says Number Leaving Country Is Little Above Normal Washington, Seto. 13. --- Deploring the hysteria that exists in relation to immigration.\ Anthony Caminetti. com- 111iSstiOner general of intinigrailon, is- sued a stolen:ell! yesterday showing that oldy 102.521 foreigners have left the United Slates ,h1eu. the armistice and a total of only 123.522 during the 12 months ended June :it. 1919. For the rive yeors ended June 31). 1919. 61S1,223 immigrants departed as compared with 1,172,679 immigrant arrivals for the same period. The statement points out an excess of ar- rivals over departures of 554,456. 'Rumors that 1.500,000 foreign resi. then is or the United Slates W011' pi' e - paring to leave for Hier!' native emit-. tries. taking ‘vith theta $5,000,000, have disturbed the country,\ tlit• statement says. \The exodus is perfectly natural and, as in normal times, many will re- turn.\ PRESIDENT REVIEWS FLEET AT SEATTLE Lottery Used to Dispose of Seats at Tacoma.—$25 Bids Posted for Admission Tickets Spokane. Sept, 13.—In a detailed ar- gument against amendments or reser- vations to the treaty. Mn, Wilson as- serted in his speech here last night, there could he no danger from the voting power of British dominions in the league assembly, because its de- eiisons must be unanimous and the United States always• would have an absolute veto. The president spoke in the armory after he had been elteered throughout the densely erowded downtown streets. and Mops,: and shouts of approval fre- quently broke in on his address. The 4,5(N) seats in the armory hod been distributed in n toddle lottery, and on the SpOlialle Mittitig StOek Ex- change a bid if 525 had been posted for an admission tieket. After the president's address his special train left for Tactona, where llie president will speak this morning. In tiw afternoon he will review the Pacific fleet at Seattle. and will speak tonight at the Seattle arena. The president spoke at Billings and Helena Thursday morning and even- ing. WYOMING BOOZE MUST BE RETURNED. RULES JUDGE Sheridan, \V - yo., Sept. 13.—A deri- sion of the utmost importanee to those it hose 1•00Ze lins been seized in Wy- lotting since July 1 was made yester- day by Judge J. H. Burgess of the dis- trict court. Judge Burgess held in a ease brought to test the seizure of liquor 111111 InVolving moire than X1,000,000 worth of booze, that the liquor so seized must be returned to the origi- nal owners. He ruled specifically that the officials have no authority to seize liquior under searrh warrants. The ease will be appealed to the supreme court. and it is believed a decision will be honied down soon. WANT NEW TRUST LAWS, Washington, Sept. 10. ---New laws to \eontrol the 1920 model trust\ were asked of congress yesterday by Chair- man Colver of the federal trade eom- mission. He told the house judiciary committee present laws Cannot touch the new business development, which Celver described as a \eotnbination which strangles competition . by com- mon travel of competing commodities.\ \The 1920 model trust is beyond the anti-trust laws, and the vision of the courts,\ declared Colver MONTANA UNIVERSITY NEEDS MORE EQUIPMENT Members of State Efficiency Commis. sion Say This Same Condition Ex- ists in Other State Institutions Missoula.-1.'ollowing an inspection of the University of Montana plant, Frank Eifel of Dillon, N. T. Lease of Great Falls, and W. 0. Fisk of Ham- ilton. members of the state effitiency and trade commission, stated that they founI the sanne conditkuns here as In most of the state's institutions, \There seems a big demand every- where,\ said Chairman Elie!. \for more -quipment, particularly buildings. In so other state institution is there stteh 11 oliViollS lack of room to earry on 111 , CeSSary work. We shall inelude -..niething in this connection in our inal report. , NVith proper equipment, i believe this would he One of the rin st institlitions Iii t lie tiOrthWeS1. - COPPER MINES RUNNING FAR BENEATH CAPACITY Anaconda Official Says Principa) Shortage Is in Departments Where Common Labor Is Used Great Falls.—Copper mines and smelters of 31ontatia are running far tinder catawity at present because of inability to get operatives, according to Frederick Laist, nuinager of the Anacimiia Copper Mining tsanpany, W110 is here looking after the com- pany's interests at the Great Falls re- duction plaint. The Anaconda com- pany is turning ititt only about 1:1,1100.- 000 pounds a month, compared \Vith' it notinal 2110)0,000 pounis. Two reasons assigned by Mr. Laist are the drift or foreign born workers back to Europe and the fael that the wage senle enables the single men to earn nuntstsy living working from three to four days nt Nxeck• Tile Prillsintil short - age is in departments tvliere common lahoir is 1 . 0,01'1'441. CATTLE TAKING THE BACK TRAIL TO TEXAS For First Time in History of Montana That Overland Trail Will be Traveled Southward Miles City.—For the first time in the history if the state. cattle are tak- ing the trail haek to 'l'ens. H. R. Dyke of this city. together with .T. L. Wilson of Broadus. county seat of Powder 'River county, have just re - Willed front Texas, where they effeet- ed a lease of 40,000 acres of land in the Nit pasture country. They will trail cattle from Montana to Texas, whit+ is considered rather a reversal of the previous history of the state, and it will probably be the first time in its history that this has been done. The northward shipment of livestock from the Lone Star state has been the rule. Cattle from Mexico and the south- western states have been heretofore shipped to this state for finishing from the time the cattle industry suceeeded the bison in the west. Never before, It is stated, have cattle found their way back to the point of origin. WAS CALLED AN I. W. W. HE SUES FOR $25.00C Billings. .1rtitur A. Peterson of this place believes that when one is called an 1. W. W. and avenged of I. W. W. practices, one's reputation has been damaged to the exthit of $25,000, He has sued .loseph Benediet for that amount In district court here, elainting that Benedict cireulated malicious re- ports eoneerning him. A school house lowned in Fergus vounty. says Peterson's petithin, an.I a letter received by school officials charged Peterson with threatening be- forehand to destroy \one of the knowl- edge boxes\ of that regjon. The letter said Peterson was an I. SV, W., aecording to the complaint. Peterson was arrested on the strength of the charges, but later released. Ile claims Benedict wrote the letter. DRY SQUAD ORDERED TO QUIT AT BUTTE Butte.—Asserting that the eounty e0111111issioners are playing into the hands of bootleggers in Silver n o w county, .Tosepli R. Jackson, county at- torney, has announced that he will pay no attention to the order he has re- ceived from the commissioners to the effect that the county attorney's so- called \dry squad\ $hall be severed from the pay roll on and after Sep- tember 15. The county attorney says his squad shall continue to act as be- fore, and that also he will See to It that the legitimate costs in connection with its work are paid. COUNTY SUES TO RECOVER FORFEIT FROM TRUST CO. Missoula. — Missoula county has filed an action for debt agninst the Spokane and Eastern Trust company, alleging Gott payment on a certified check for $1.000 was stopped by the company. The check was drawn on the Bank of Montreal of Spokane, and when presented, the county alleges, Dayment WaS refused. In retaliation, the county has attached the sum of $1,500 due the company from the joint district No. 2 of Alberton. News of Montana Brief Notes Concerning thc le 0 Treasure State 4 1 iF Governor Sam V. Stewart has nanitill H. C. Hall of Havre as judge in the Seventeenth judicial district, succeed- ing John Hurley, resigned to become fin associate justice of the supreme court. Mr. Hall served in the artil- lery during the war. Ile is a son of the late J. H. Hall, state railway com- missioner, and is it graiduate of Ann Arbor. O 0 Fred McMurray, a conductor for the Northern Pacific railroad, must appear before the federal court at Mintivapo. lis to 1111SWer a charge or having at- tempted to ship NViliskey in a Pontine car from Minneapolis to Seattle, as the result of a It sit Deer Lodge, at which Harry K. IS\ellito of Helena, assistant to the U. S. district attorney, trio) saw the whiskey 1011ded OH the I rain, appeared for the government. O 0 An ordinary Montana winter will bring about railway tieups and a ear shortage which will make it Impossible to supply the demand for coal, neeord- ing to the prediction of the state rail- road commission which has isS11011 a warning to the people of the state to lay in their supplies of coal at once. The situation is becoming serious, ac- cording to the commission's statement. O 0 Failing to jump clear of a grain sei. orator upon which he was riding when the maehine tipped to one side, An- ton Sonde. of Miley, in the north- eastern part of the state, was instantly 'Fhe Selangor WaS being pull- ed through a field by a tractor and when Sonde fell under the machine one of the rear wheels passed over his head, crushing it. O 0 The orange growers of southern Cal- ifornia are hungry for Montana ap- ples, if the shipment 4)f three cars of Bitter Root fruit to Los Angeles is to he taken as an indication. The first id the fruit shiplilent is begin- ning to arrive, with :in increase ex- pected daily until the season is over. O 0 Leon Thomas, an inmate lif the state penitentiary at Deer Lodge serving a term for ftirgery. effected an escape from that institution. according to in- formation received by Butte police. Th omas Is we n k nown I n B u tt e , lie was serving a term of front 011e and a half to three years. O 0 Within half a mile of the Yellow. stone county court house at Billings, clahns B. T. Dickinson, is a field of sapphires. In proof he exhibits a handful of beautiful gents, just return- ed to him from Denver foul St. Louis cutting shops. Beyond the foregoing indefinite direction Mr. Dickinson re- fuses to indicate the location of the bed. O 0 According to reports received at di- visional headquarters In Minneapolis from less than half of the chapters in Montana, Red Cross home service in the state ministered to 4,700 fami- lies in July. Complete reports, It is believed, would bring the total of those to whom service has been ren- dered well above 10,000. Over $8,000 was expended In money relief by the reporting chapters. O 0 Joseph Antonich of Butte has been awarded $30 in his suit against John Doe Jones. Antonich grew a nice gar- den until Jones' ehickens got into it 111111, aVelirdIng to the evidence offer- ed, rendered it valueless. The damage was estimated at $50 by the owner, but the court cut . $20 from the esti- mate. o Eight new lawyers, one woman and seven men, were added to the bar of Montana when the supreme roma re- convened after its summer recess. The new attorneys are: Paul M. Paulson, Roy: Treesa M. Fitzgerald. Kalislwill Ira J. Stagg, Antwonda ; Dennis F. Naughton, Butte: George W. Swords, Billings; Hugh Thomas Carter, Hel- ena; George A. Lester, Forsyth; W. E. Castleton, Deer Lodge, O 0 Development of a pronounced need is to result in the establishment in Billing's of an adequately equipped landing field for airplanes. A tract of land within the eity limits has been donated for the purpose by Chris Yegen on condition that It be equip- ped and maintained. Art Barry. com- tminder of the local post of the Ameri- can Legion, with other interested per- sons. has Itgreed to furnish the field with all the nevessary equipment. O o . Adherents of the proposed Liberty county Won it preliminary victory over the hoard of voilltilissioners tif Hill county when the state supreme court issued a writ of mandate (Brisling the board of commissioners to appear on September 23 and show cause why they should not hp ordered to reeeivis and act upon- pelitiens presented to them urging creation of the new county, O 0 Assurances that an Invitation will be extended to Senator Hiram Johnson of California to include Helena and other Montana towns in the itinerary of his speaking tour against the league of nations is given by prominent Re- publicans of the state. O 0 G. F. Altfnan. hide buyer, who was arrested at Basin, Wyo., some time sgo as be was transporting liquor to Montana, has been fined $350 in the Wyoming city. His liquor and an auto- mobile truck were confiscated and or- dered sold. E A. CUDAHY E A. %OH) heads I 'adaity & one of the five big meal pack- ing concerns which have been subjects taf got penmen t int cstiso WORLD NEWS IN ENDENSE0 FORM The steamer Barnstable. cwil laden, from savannah, tta.. to it Cuban port, went down off Si, cotherines. it is re- ported that 14 of the (pew are missing. * Several thous:old tons of silver ore will be shipped out next spring from Yukon and .1Iaska. according Iii Hey Ifichniond, superintendent of the Northern Commercial club at Dawson. Half of this amount %till come from Nixon Fork. near Hit:trod, and half from Katoislia, near Fairbanks. The Stewart river yountry is expeeted to ship 1,00o to 2,000 tons. Gatublitus in public places and club rooms has been pr.iliiidosl ill Germany by a ruling of :Minister of Defense Noske, l'remier l'ester • if New Brunswick, t'anada. announces that the provincial government will probably take ever the wholesale ending of liquor on No- vember 1. tr Six thousand dollars in gold lilts been paid to 'Mexicans for the release of Dr. .1. Smith, an American. and E. Monson, believed to be at subject of Sweden, who were taken from a train near Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, ac- cording to telegrams reeeived from Chihuahua City in El Paso. gr * A dispatch received in Paris from Sosonowice In the governntent of Pitiokow, Poland, asserts that a Ger- tnan army, comprising a 1111111111111H of 200,000 men, is eoncentratted on the frontier of Silesia ready to he thrown against Poland. Atlantic City has • been selected for the 1920 annual enetimpinent of the Grand Army of the Republic, whielt is holding its annual encampment at Co- lumbus, (tido, ▪ tr \‘'. \V. organizers al Virginia. Mints. declare that their organization will not join with the American Fed- eration of Labor in tht• strike of the steel workers called by the Aineriasin Federation or Libor for September 22. sr * Co-operation with the internatlimal laborites in their campaign to proeure Germany's admission to the league of nations and fin. an immediate revi- sion of the \harsh trenty provisions, whiell are inconsistent with the state- ments amide on behalf of the allies at the lime of the armistice\ was over- whelmingly pledged by the trades union congress In session in Glasgow, Scotland. By n vote of 244 141 7, the bill con- ferring the rank of permanent admiral on Admiral Benson and Rear Admiral Sims NY:is passed by the house and sent to tik• senate. Citing the reeent affiliation of the national capital's police force with the American Federation of Labor, Sell - titer Meyers of 'Mentana called on con- gress to check \Oat he characterized ats a general plan of labor to \soviet- ize\ the industry of the inttion and proposed a resolution to cut off the I ay of policemen who join the union. tz The oil leasing bill passed by the senate will be taken up by the house COMIllittee and expedited, instead of the Sinnott bill, in order to save time, according to present plans. The house bill extending the food etnitrol act to penalize profiteering has been passed by the senate and sent to conference. ▪ * Canada's house of contmons will ap- prove the peace treaty, it was indi- cated, \then. on st party division, the house defeated the Fielding amend- ment by a vote of 102 to 70. The amendment provided for the addition of a clause to the resolution of approv- al that the resolution in no way af- fected the existing autonomous au- thority of the dominion. OF COURSE NOT. - -- \I noticed your father and mother crying during the \t (siding cert.:isms,\ said the groom. \Yes dear, they bride sweetly. \What were they crying shotitr \Oh some iine reminded them that we were to live lionte with them.\ \Well I like that! You didni see me doing any weeping, did you?\ were,\ said the Gillis' Complaint Willis—We folks at home should tIA our Avork without Complaining. You know wore linth her victories the satne as war. Gillis --1 know. but nobody pins med- als on you for Ivashing the dishes. and there's never a brass hand out to meet you in the morning after you've walked the floor till night with the haby.—Judge. APPROACHING SHADOW. soli\ Bacon--1-low's the you? Egbert—Can't complain. \No kick coming, then?\ \I can't say that. I'm expecting my wife home from her mother's tomor- row.\ world treating Selfishness. I wonder why my woes should be So serious to me, While such Ss other people bear Seem mostly trifles, light as air Setting Was the Word. \Those women have been setting there for an hour or more.\ \You shouldn't say 'setting,' my dear. It is 'sitting.'\ \No. 'setting' Is what I meant. 1 think they're hatching out trouble for somebody.\ Honesty the Best Policy. \Did you ever buy votes?\ \No replied Senator Sorghum. \I always thought that an effort to buy ii man's vote was as good n reason as you could possibly put into his mind for voting against you.\ The Growler. He kicks about Ma many woes. He is a cont,litnt fretter, I wonder if the grumbler knows A world that's any better. MEAN DISPOSITION. \You actually got a pleasatit wt .rd 3ut of Mr. Grumpus?\ \Yes.\ \how did you contrive to do It?\ \I told him a neighbor of his had broken an ariu while cranhitig a divver.\ Tied to Type. \Nobody Vkallts lilt' except as a vil lain, I represeot a type. but I'm tired of villain parts.\ \You're benevolent allow side of me.\ said the movie actress. \Nobody wants me except as the cruel super. Intendent of 9rplian asylums.\ Needs Cleaning. \Here's that politician With to get a writer to defend his reputa- tion.\ \Why doesn't tie get a scrub srItt•r?\ t. •
