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// * .. \' ;1 1 ; r • C f.i ;,‘ if • \ 4 • VOL. L ,NO. 15. to! - Moistens is Situated on thellig Rend of the Musselshell River in the Faurout Masseli fir it Valley Where Faring are Among the Seat in the Northwest MELSTONE, MUSSELSHELL COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1912. $2.00 PER YEAR. • Petty Thieves Steal Nine Pair of Trousers They are Smooth, but get * Nabbed. Sentenced to Simpson Gets Thirty-five Days Fifteen Months A pretty clever piece of thieving was pulled off last Thursday morn- ing, when John Ray and Harry bewis, who claim ,to hail from Ill- nois stole nine pair trousers from R. S. Wilson's General Store and sold them to some bulgerians at the round house. Pleads Guilty to Forgery And is Sentenced to Penitentiary Harold D. Simpson, charged with forgery, pleaded guilty before Judge Cheadle to the charge of The pair.\blow\ in Wednesday forgery and was sentenced toserve and went in the store Thursday fifteen months in the penitentiary. morning on the pretense of buying When asked what he had to say, tobacco but more so to get the lay why sentence should not beliassed of the land. They came back the second time arid hung around un- til every one but the proprietor was out, when Ray took a notion that he ought to have some mail here. Ha went to the post office window, called for his mail and in - °Wendy drew Wilson into conver- sation about different mail matters while Lewis slipped the pants un- der his coat and made a hasty get- away, Ray following shortly after.. They proceeded to the freight yard where they pulled off every- thing that would be evidence against them they thought, and stuffed tags with stock number in their pockets, but they failed to look intsi the peckettof . the„higker, grade stoat. Wird' glitin'a r ites with stock number is. a lwaye rphiced by the factory and by which the trousers' were identified tiy the owner at the prelithinary hearing. The theft was.not discovered un- Hi afternoon when one the.Bulger- ians dropped iii thorn store and told Wilson about the bargain he got in some new trotuiera from a couple of fellops, whom he des,?ribed upon being questioeed. Wilson then became suspicious and took inven- tory of his trousers with the re- sult nine pair came up Missing. He immediiitely swore out a war- • rant, charging his early morn- ' ing customers with petit larceny. The warrant was then given to Constable smith who depptized Big Bob Gish, bartender at the Cozy Corner saloon. The culprits were found eating supper at the Antlers hotel. Gish went in and told them that thry wore under ar- rest, they started in to. dispute his authority, but he told them again in rather emphatic language and after looking over the big fellow the second time, decided they bad better obey what he told I hem. At the . preliminary held Friday afternoon, before Justice E. B. Perry, the .Bulgerians identified the prisoners as being the men from whom they purchased the pante. Herb Frederickson bar- tender at the Antlers, testified that the prisoners had hung around the ()glom during the afternoon and made frequent trips to the rear.of the plate. He became suspicious that 'something was up and by in- vestigating discovered • several of the tags in a* out .haliee. Wherethe prisoners had sought to destroy them. Thsy pleaded not guilty bat the evidence was ao strong that Judge ,Perry thought 35 days, in %hecoanty jail would keep them out f enlecheif for avrhile. • , Simpson said he had nothing to say. Judge Cheadle then passed sentence, without making any re- marks. - Friday night quite a stir was caused at the county jail, when Simpson had quite an attack of ill- ness of some sort or other. Just what the nature of the attack was is not definitely known, but it may have been opyloptic. Dr. Attix was summoned, but when he ar- rived Simpson was recovering from it. His mind was apparently un- balanced for the time being, and he was still raving somewhat. • In explanation Simpson stated that at one time he received a blow idention the Atilt being perceptable, and . ibis is believed to have caused the brain- storm or whatever it was. The re- port wae circulated about the • city that Simpson tried te commit sui- cide and that this bronght on his illness. However, this is not be- lieved by the officers, --Lewistown Daily News. I Terms of District Court —.0— The terms of the district court in and . for the thirteenth judicial district of the State of Montana for 1912 are as follows: '- Yellowstone . County • Moieray, 'January 8th; Monday. April 22nd; Tuesday, September 3rd; Monday, November 11th. Musselshell County: Monday, March 11th; Monday, May 27th; Monday. June 10th; Tuesday, Oct- tober 1st. Hon. Geo. W. Pierson of Bil- lings, -presiding judge. C S. Pra- ter, Stenographer, Rosebud County: Monday,. Jan- uary 22nd: Wednesday, May 22nd; Monday, Juno 3rd; Monday, No- vember 18th. Carbon County: Monday, Feb- ruary 26th; 'Monday April 1st: Monday, April 15th; . Monday, August 5th. Hon. tsydney Fox of Red' Lodge presiding judge. A. J. Mitchell of Billings, stenographer. Clerks: L. T. Jones, Billings; W. G. Jarrett, Roundup; D. J. Murie, Forsyth; H. Red Lodge. County Attorneys: .Chas. A. Taylor, Billings; Desmond J. O'Neil, Roundup; Chas. L. Crum, Forsyth; P. E. Allen, Red Lodge. • • • Coal! Coal! Coal! Buy coal of us.- We cell good coal at $5.50 per ton or $5.00 off the car. 'R. S. Wilson .„ Registration Law Does Not Apply to Caucuses Old Transit House Burned —*V Well Known Hotel for the Western Stockmen in Chicago The Transit house at the Union stock yards, for years one of the most widely known hotels in the west, was reduced to ruins Friday in a fire which coat -one life, for a time trapped many persona and for hours threatened the stock yards with a general conflagration. So radidly did the flames sweep through the building, a five story structure of brick and wood, that guests were forced to flee down tire escapes, and in many instances were dragged 'from the burning building by firemen. An unidenti- tied negro porter was the solovic- tim. Scarcity„of water and the in- tense cold hampered the firemen. The loss to the building and contents was estimated at $175,000 and neighboring buildings suffer- ed damages of approximately $25,- 000. Thomas Tipton, a well-known c,onunisson man, and his wife isoOght to fipo ; down the fire escape 'from the tl}inffloor, but were so benumbed that • they were carried down by firemen. The transient house was built 40 years ago. Before and after the great fire it was a well known con- vention headquarters, and has been the headquarters for practic- ally every stockman that has visit- ed Chicago. • Vinger Sells Right of Way —.0.— A deal harm just been closed up, it is learned, for a right of way over the Ole Vinger ranch near Grass Range. Mr. Vilifier received $4,000 from the Milwaukee rail- road for right of way on his land, which is • very . valuable bottom land. Mr. Webster, the right of way agent, is rapidly closing deals for right of way out the Grass Range way and will soon have the route cleared up for the begining of work on the grade and track early in the Spring. The joint line of the Groat Nor - Hipp and Milwaukee will run for a considerable distance over the Vingor ranch, right up to the town of Grass Range. The road will follow the crook, and will cut thro some of the finest land. . About 37 acres of land are in- cluded in this deal, all of it, being required for right of. way, Inspector Daugherty and the horses were brought to Billings. Dorsey was then taken into cus- tody, and is being held in the county jail. It is understood that he does not deny having committed the theft, but declares that in his opinion, it is no erione to steal frpm Cree Indians, for the reason that they are renegades, and are not en- titled to the protection of the United States !awe. The provisions of the registrir- tion law enacted by the legislature last winter do not apply to party caucus elections is the ruling of Attorney General Galen to John Hurly. county attorney of Dawson county.' \The provisions of this act ap- ply only to general elections, mun- icipal elections, general school elec- tion and special county elections, and for that it is my opinion,\ Mr. Galen writes, \that voters at a party caucus would not be required to be registered voters prior to such caucus nor would it be news - nary for the registration books of the county to be closed prior there- to.\ Mr. Hurley also asked whether. the names of women who are reg- istered should be carried through all the registration books, or if it would be sufficient that the names of women offering to register should be entered on the great register and the- school district register. \There is no diffarent procedure or method pointed out in the act as to the entering of the names of women voters than that provided for male voters. However in view of the fact that the only election at which women arteentitled to vote are school disteict , eleetiens, it would-eieceicete plUIP04.-k for • the register to•enter the.naniest up, on the precinct or municipal reg- ister\ •. In the same opinion Mr. Galen holds the county clerk has author. ity to correct clerical errors made by him in entering names upon precinct or school registers.. Montana's Wqol Clip , For Last Year Leads —.04--. For the twenty-third conseeutive year Oil National Associatiop of Wool Manufacturers has issued its annual estimate of tho wool pro- duction of the United States, based on the number of 9heep fit for shearing April 1st, together with numerous tables relating to sheep in various countries, the wool pro- duct and the manufacturers of wool. This document is regarded as the most authoritative of its kind published. According to its figures there are in the United States some 39,761,000 sheep Of shearing ago. Their total clip WM 318,547,900 pounds, of which 41,- 000,000 pounds wore pulled wools. These had a total value of $66,571,- 377, or an average value of 20,9 cents per pound, unwashed. 47.7 per pound scoured. The shrink- age averaged 60.4 per cent for ,the wools and 2 per cent for the pulled woola,which brought the amount net, of the American product down to 139,896,195 pounds when scour- ed. Fleeces averaged 6.98 pounds (etch. Last year Montana had the tar. goat flock, 4,650,000, with fleeces averaging 7i pounds each and the' clip amounting to 38,875,000 lbs. in the grease, or 12,905,760 pounds scoured. Subscribe for the Graphic. - N Must Obtaln Licede }1ow Applications MOt be titide Out to the 'Secretary Of the 134ard 43.0 . 4••••—• • Proprietors of bakeries, confect- ionery shops, meet market() (in- cluding grocery stores handliig dressed fowls), dairies, restaurahls hotels, packing houses and lunbh counters are going .6 find them.. selves in trouble velithortly unleat they hasten to con4ly with the provisions of the ptit'a food act en- acted by the last legitlature, which went into effect Jar(fiary 1. The law says thelb places must have licenses issue& by the state board of health. F4* have com- plied with its proviaions, and the state board . will enterce the act strictly. Of 1,800 notices Rent out by the board applications were re- ceived in return from only 350 persons. Dr, T. D. Tuttle, secretary of the board of health, said last week: \The license does not cost the people one cent. All that is nec- essary is to fill out the blank form or aPPlication and mail it to the secretary of the state board of health at Helena. If any person has not been supplied with an ap- plication blank it is duo to the fact that wo do not know that ho is conducting a huaihess i . requiring a license, and if he Abstply-far. % Avant his name and placid busin- eea to this office on a post card, he will be immediately supplied with an application blank. • .Montana Cattle •—• 0 •-- Shipments of Montana to time Chicago market . this year fell short of the shipments last year by 39,000 bead according tá a re- port received last week by D. W. Ramond, secretary of the state board of stock commissioners, from the inspietors stationed at Chicago . During (ho shipping season of 1910 a total of j58,516 Montana cattle were marketed at Chicago. - during the season of 1911 there wore only 119,861 head marketed. The growing importance of the western markets— Portland, Seat tie and Spokane—this past season took approximately 20,000 head of cat. tie that otherwise would have gone to Chicago, leaving a shortage of 19,000 head to be accounted for only on the assumption that the cattle industry in Montana has de- clined to that extent. The high price of beef this year, however, resulted in the Montana growers receiving fully as much for the 119,000 head of cattle this year as they received last year for the 158,000 head. • Held for Stealing Settakum Moosemay, a Cree Indian arrived in Billings Friday for the purPose of securing nine horses which lie claims were stolen from him by Ed Dorsey. He says the animals worn at his camp in the Musselshell country, and that after Dorsey appropriated them he took the animals to Lavine and disposed of thom. The matter was repotted. to Sleek le?
