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VOLUME 28, NUMBER 23
BELT, MONTANA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1921.
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
GERRY HAY WOUNDED IN HÜNT
XCUDENT; A THRILLING RESCUE
With the thermometer 16 degrees
below zero, Gerry Hay, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew G. Hay of Armin gton.t
from-a- g un s hot wpimd
the mountains near the head of
Hound creek on Saturday, but by good
' luck survives, and if his good hick con
tinues, will recover from his wound.
Hay and Cleve Goings, nephew of
Officer Ernest Goings of Great Falls,
were hunting well toward the head of
Hoover creek, this side of Neihart.
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They had separated and Gerry had
laid his gun. a 30-army, on a rock
* above him to keep it out of the snow
while he tested a rockslide. Reach
ing for the gun, it became dislodged
and slid down the rockslide from Hay,
who fell in trying to teach for it, the
hammer struck a stone and it was dis
charged, the steel jacketed bullet hit
ting Hay on the outside of his left an
kle, following the bone and coming out
above, after having almost made a
circuit of the bone and tom through
the calf of the leg. The wound was a
bad one, the leg being paralyzed, and
Gerry, realizing that he could live but
a short time without help, secured his
rifle and fired three signal shots as a
a
sign of trouble. Luckily Goings was
not far away, and hearing the signal
answered it, the two continuing shoot
ing until Goings located Hay, who was
» weak from the loss of blood and the
The accident occurred at 4
o'clock in the afternoon, on the moun
tain top, and Goings carried Hay on
his back, part of the time supporting
him and part of the time on an Im
prevised travois, for four miles, where
the wounded man was left in the tern
porary shelter of a cabin while Goings
continued on six miles to the ranch of
t William Knowles, securing a horse and
...Hartley
shock.
man.
Hay was brought in on horseback
given first aid, and Dr. Lee Roy Me- j
Burney, who had just arrived at Camp !
Rotary on a hunting trip, was driven !
up Hoover creek, where no car ever !
went before, in q. jitney by Mr. Mc
Gregory. who lives just above Camp
Rotary. The wounded man, who is a j
personal friend of Dr. McBurney, was
attended to, and Sunday was brought
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the following morning after having
missed the road once, having a blow
out. and at one time running out of
Just about as he reached
gasoline.
Fire Destroys the Waris
Ranch Barn and Cattle
, The bam oh the farm of Hannah
' Waris, in the upper Willow creek sec
tion, was destroyed by fire last Frl
day nigrht, the origin of the fire being
unknown. In the bam were five
milch cows, also hay and tools, noth-1
ing being saved. In addition one or
two haystacks and a granary partly
filled with wheat were destroyed by
the Dames. So far as known there
was no insurance.
The Waris farm was formerly
known as the Wiley Farmer place, the
Waris family having lived there for
the past eight or 10 years. According
to the report of the fire, Mrs. Waris'
son had been m Belt during the day
with a load of wheat and arrived home
, after dark. He put up his team and
the family retired, being awakened
some time afterward by the light of
the Dames. Little could be done to
save the burning buildings as the fire
had gained too much headway when
discovered. The loss is a severe one
to the family.
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other states, including David Starr
Jordan of Uland Stanford university.
Prof. Peter Dykeman of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, and E. T. Devtea.
associate editor of the Survey of New
York
Chancellor E. C. Elliott of the Mon
tana State university were also pres
ent.
Bad weather and impassable roads
which prevented buyers from attend
t ing the consignors' Holstein salesched
' uled to be held in the Montana Live
stock pavilion in Great Falls Tuesday,
resulted in cancelling the sale,
consignors yesterday shipped their
stock back to their farms.
The
Governor Joseph Dixon and
Every school teacher of Cascade.
county was present at each session^of
the convention, which is recognized as '
one of the most important educational :
institutions of the northwest, In Rs
schools Montana has been given the
first place m the United State, in efD
nency, equipment and general excel-,
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The convention ended last evening,
the teacher* mostly returning to thete,
home* to spend Thanksgiving, and will ;
re*t the balance of the will
The convention J 8 Ä, chieed showed
that tbe «oaasrvabw «baust « the .
teaching profession in Montana have
a majority again and little of a red!
cal nature gained ranch of a hearing i
si any at the semions.
Belt the heavy snowstorm of Monday
began and the trip from here in was
made Without Ti ghts, with the thermo
-An-Fmeter reg isgtg r ing W
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was a particularly hard trip on the
P*rty.
Hay was taken to Dr. McBurney's
home, where he is being giveh the
closest attention in an effort to avoid
infection. The wound is a particularly
bad one, dirt and pieces of clothing
! having been driven in with the bullet.
which together with the exposure and
loss of blood makes it still worse but
at the present time he is doing well
\ with a fair chance for complete recov
ery.
Hay is an ex-service man, one of
j four brothers who all served during
I the late war. In the winter of 1919-20
he with his brother Edgar, spent the
season trapping along Belt creek and
wolf hunting in the Belt mountains,
achieving a marked success in the
venture. He was a deputy assessor
under Harold S. Mady during the sea
son of field work of the assessor's of
fice.
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PLAN TO MAKE SURPLUS
COPPER INTO SHINGLES
Plans for use of surplus copper in
the manufacture of shingles will be
taken up in Chicago, it is said, at a
conference of Anaconda Copper Min
' n K company officials. Several of the
officials have gone from Butte to meet
Mr. La ist, the A. C. M. superintendent,
> n Chicago. Those who have gone are
E. L. Larison, head of the acid plant;
Ernest Klepetko of the research de
partment, and Tom Robinson of the
estimating department.
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shows a
Profit Past Year
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at iVwdthout^ thfblnefit ofthe Pitt-'
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of SartUhM h.iJ™!
difficulty in the wav of showing a oro
fit from'the year'« work According
to the audit for the year ending Au*
gust 31 nresented to the stockholders
in the wav of a statement the net In
come from 3 993 tons of ore extracted
the ore netting a profit oer ton above
all mining amf administration costs of
$1168 With the uncertainties of
mining in general, this may be taken
j as a rather unusual showing during a
\ period of abnormal costs in operation
transportation and for mining equip
ment and supplies.
The real future of the mines operat
ed by this company lies in the fact
: that ore deposits are now uncovered ;
and blocked out sufficient to insure i
continuous operation* for many
months and with no indications of ex- !
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i hauation as yet in any piece of devel- |
' opment work.
New equipment to the value of $11,
000 was added during the year, includ- j
ing a new electric hoist and mining
skip. Shop ejuipment and drilling
[ machines were also added, all of a
i capacity to admit much larger expan
sion in the matter of handling ore than
j has so far been attempted. With thf* ,
added capacity it is expected that the'
total cost of operating per ton of ore, ;
will be materially reduced from last
' year's figures, which showed the total !
I cost to have been $32.59.
The Neihart Consolidated Silver
Mining company was organized two
years ago, by Cascade county men, ac
quiring what is known as the Hartley
group, then owned by the late Wm.
Mueller of Neihart. The group con
sist* of the Hartley, Boss and Atlan
tus. Tramp, Mount Moriah, Alicé,
Iowa and a one-third interest in tha
Maggie claims. The group is located i
on we8t 8 ' de Gid Baldy in the
Neihart mining district. The present !
officers are F. R. Van de Putte, presi- i
dent; J. E. Dawson, vice president; L.
M. McDonnell, secretary;W. A. Brown,
treasurer, who with Dan Tracy, form
the board of directors. All are rest - 1
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H UNTERS ARE THINNING OUT
THE PREDATORY ANIMALS
ippers in the employ of the Mon
tana fish and game commission killed
gg coyotes and two wolves daring the
month of October, according to • re.
^ »ubmitted by C. A. Jakwajr*. state
fj,h and game warden,
Wolf* Den. a stronghold of the wolf
jin the High wood mountains, ha* been
ndded of its inhabitants, according to
information received from the United
State* department of agriculture Gor
animent hunters seeking predatory
. nima j, haTf c ic* rr d the lair of the
wolf , urh an extent that cattle and
'calve* now graze unmolested where s
ye *r ago the locality was infestei) with
wolv««
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H E Wood returned Tuesday after
noon from a business trip to Great
Kails
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Thankg i ving 1921
Once again Thanksgiving is with us, and
reach his, the most inspiring of our Holidays,
thoughts go back to those noble Pilgrim Fathers who
originated this dsy. There, in heir new home, after
their first harvest had been gathered and their stores
put sway for the winter, they aet aside a day for
general thanksgiving. Forgetting their hardships,
their victorious fight against almost overwhelm
ing odds, the disaster and privation* and adver
sities, they looked down the broad vista of the future
and foresaw days of peace and plenty, and out of the
fullness of their hearts they gave hank* to the God
who had been so good to them.
as we
our
This wonderful custom has been handed down to Us
through the years since this memorable first Thanks
giving Day. We, too, have our hardships, our ob
stacles, our adversities, but let us imitate that splen
did example set us by the
God-fearing Pilgrim
Fathers and forget all (
the petty details of boni- /C
ness, all the woryiea, all
the obstacles which have L jjX
confronted us, and ra-l'jMj
mem bering only the good
things of life; enter into \ a
the true and happy spirit T
of Thanksgiving.
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Storm Delays Completion
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The •material for use in the Fifth
Annual Red Cross Roll Call arrived
la8t Friday and was distributed to the
,m ' mbers of the c° mn mtee Saturday
aft « rnoon at the meeting held in the
City HaI1 > by Mrs - Cha8 ' T ' R,ce ' chalr
lady of the commlttee !t had bwn
the lntent,on 40 start out Monday and
complete the work of soliciting, but
tbe "Xf* cold interfered with the
P la ™, Mr ?' Fr< î d . Sl «Ç lin *
ar, j ^ r8 ' Ora Wilson braved the storm
ca ¥ nv ?, 8Ä ^J , eir and also
il?™ - -**' w Hea
M rs • L - J - C } eTtc / and ^f 8,
I Banter, completed their dts
; tr,ct T" e 8 da .X 0 llnd .. rep 0 J rte 'U'?
i ur f r A,ton MS collected. This i* the
only re P? rt I1 »o far made and ^>n a
! rep ? rt kl of al1 committee members will
probably not be made before the end
I of the week.
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Mrs. Rice and Mrs. N. H. Browning
j met with the Miners' Union Tuesday
evening, and were assured that the
members would take the matter of
voting a donation under consideration,
but the result had not been communl
cated to the treasurer. Rev. Alton, up
, * a8t night.
Last year the Roll Call in Belt re
; suited in $212 for the Red Cross and
things considered this year should
! net an e< iual amount at least,
Clerk John E. Moran The sum of
i $763,746 is to be set aside for educa
tional purpose*
! Clerk Moran show* that $7,076 ia to
i be collected for the city of Belt, which
doe* not include the special improve- j
ment taxes, which are paid direct to
City Treasurer C. H. Provin. ;
SCHOOLS GET HALF OF CAS
C ADE ('OrSTY TAX MONEY
Approximately one half of the $1,-1
882,802 in taxes to be collected this!
year in Cascade county will go to the ;
schools of the county, according to fig -1
ures prepared Tuesday by -County
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When a member of the board of
trustee* of the county unit system
takes it upon himself to lambast the
system, it urely must be assumed that
he is speaking with authority and
' knows something of hi* subject. At
a meetm g of the Cascade County Tax
payers' league last Thursday evening,
John Seist rom of Stockett, a member
of the board 1 . took occasion to say that
* the 8y8tem had . not ordy ««T * 1 a d „ e
tertoration in the standard of schools,
but had caused a great increase in the
,T he k Un J t 8 y î t f n1, he deca k red '
shlft ^ d the burden of taxes upon thore
who were able to pay and lifted It
T rom th ,. 0 " who were un ! ble 40 ma 'r*
tain their position. A reasonably
prosperous community, he said under
the^county unit law is compelled to
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furnish funds for the education of
those districts that have an inferior
economic standing.
Mr. Selstrom might have gone fur
iher and stated that while that was
the intent of the system, that it had
failed to even do that satisfactorily,
While thi* is one of the objection* to
the system, the chief cause of discon
tent with the county unit is the tak
ing away of all authority of the local
trustees, a result that does not meet
with favor in the average American
community; and that while the dis
trict* have paid increased taxes their
own schools have suffered.
for rial yesterday morning
o'clock, and pleaded guilty to
harge. He wa* fined 16 and cost»,
which was paid. Wade was arrested
>.n September 27 in Great Falls for an
assault commited upon Fred Siegling
the day before, and placed under bonds •
to appear later.
WADE PLEADS GUILTY AND
PAY $15 FINE FïîfUASS CTO'
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James C. Wade, placed under bond*
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of $250 for appearance In Justice of
the Peace Hackshaw's court, answered
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COURTS RULINGS GIVE HOBSON'S
FIGHT VERY FAVORABLE OUTLOOK
The point that the county of Judith
Basin did not exist at the time of the
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election to determine the location of
ThtTcOUhty ~SSSXT wï» hïbügKV UÜ liy
Judge Banner, one of the counsel for
Stanford in the contest, last Satur
day and it may result in that event
the selection of a permanent county
seat would have to be decided by an
other election.
Envelopes containing voted and un
used ballots which the election judges
had testified they had sealed, were
found tom when Judge Carroll, Thurs
day night, opened the disputed ballot
pouch of the West Gameil precinct,
; The pouch was opened by the court af
the conclusion of counsel and after
} he had overruled the objection of the
defense to any action leading to the
count of the county seat ballots of
that precinct.
The ballots upon this question were
not counted in court, but each was
. given an identifying mark by Judge
Carroll and retained in his possession,1
pending further action in court. Un- 1
j used county seat ballots numbering
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1 LAIDES AID TO HOLD C*ARN1
VAL AND BAZAAR ON DEC. 3
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The annual carnival and bazaar of
the Ladies Aid of the M. E. church will
: be held at the
jon Saturday,
I and evening.
served from 5:30 p. m. on, A feature
j is the various booths that will serve
i the food which is to be cooked in ap
propriate ways of the different nation
; ulities. There will also be an
, tninment program and an auction sale
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High school auditorium
December 8 , afternoon
A big dinner will be
Real Winter Hits
All of Montana
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A full foot of snow covers this sec
I which fc^inX' JormTeginninJ on
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in thi* locality, and report* are that In
many sections of the slate a lower
rr< ' ord wa * madp
of Although thi* is the heaviest fall of
snow at one time that has occurred!
for many years, at thi* writing there
has been no high winds and very lit
tie drifting- The haulage of wheat
into town was interrupted, but other
wise traffic has continued as usual,
The road to Great Falls is still open
to automobile traffic and coal haul -
1 1 «ge by truck continued throughout
* h< „ rn i d and 8torm - much\aa usual,
(,. H. Brown, proprietor of the motor
«tage line between Belt, Armington
' f nd Great Eall* made hi* trips regu
larly. He has added a limousine top
to the stage and equipped it with a
hea,er ' aMur,n K romfort to the pas
sengers regardless Of weather condl-;
lions.
ms.
The train schedules have been a lit- 1
tic demoralized by the atorm and the
snowplows
were sent out over the
Billings & Northern line Monday.
As a rule the heavy fall of snow is
H NWM favorably bv the farmers,
as it will add materially to the mois
lure being stored In the ground, and
to w 'Yh the ordinary snow* of winter
added insures a supply to begin the
spring work with. As nearly all the
stockmen are supplied with big straw
stacks, there has been no winter feed-'
ing of hay excent to young stock a*
yet. while the splendid condition in
which the cattle went into the winter
nuts them in good shape to withstand
thi*, the first cold the Aw aso w
All stockmen of this section are sup
k j to town Tuesday
by Walfred Sheldon of a rise of 38
degree* in one hour fha» morning at
• he ranch, which is located 10 miles
southwest of Beh. He stated that In
to town the weather was
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w 'fb an abundance of hay and are
prepared for continuous cold weather
and heavy feeding if necessary.
For the first time this season the
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C J* V " no widow ma, Ie the rounds of the
0 sidewalks Monday, tpsking them fair
® y passable for pedestrian».
A peculiarity of the cold snap was
the top of the hill west of Belt, when j
The cold wave w«* encountered again.
Tuesday was cold all dav In Belt, end
ing with a snow squall in the evening
Thi* ws* followed by a sudden ri»> In
temperature, s smart shower of rain
and a softlv blowing warm
which rapidly settled the snow.
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GEYSER MAN MEMBER OF
j A NEW IvOAN CORPORATIONjed
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Andrew Thisted ami J. A. McDon
ough both of Great Fall*, and A. J.
McDonald of Geyser are named as
directors of the Liberty Cattle 1 can
company, in articles of incorporation
filed last week with County Clerk J.
E. Moran. Great Fall* is designated
a« the principal place of business of
the corporation, which is to exist for
a period of 40 years.
The corporation is capitalized at
$60.000, each of the 600 »hare* of
stock having a value of $100 Th*
actual amount of stock subscribed 4»
♦ 6,000 Each of the direct©»» bold 20
share* of stock
The regular monthly pre school
clinic will be held tomorrow at the na
usl hour at the High school «oditoriam
Mrwinir room,
from 41 to 70 inclusive were found in
the envelope. _
With the clerk of the court as teller
and the court stenog^mpSw auTclerk.
Judge Carroll Saturday counted the
missing ballots, which in the event
these returns are finally accepted by
the court, will affect the reduction of
Stanford's majority to 11. The vote
from this precinct was found to be the
same as that unofficially reported
from that precinct, with the exception
of the loss by Hobson of one vote,
which was held by the court to be de
fective.
j Shortly before adjournment Satur
day. Counsel for Hobson introduced
i applications of IS persons for absent
voters ballots to be cast in Stanford
precinct 38, each of which bore the
signatures of two registered electors
as witnesses. Of these two witnesses.
it was shown in each case that only ont
was a registered elector of that pre
rinct, the other witness being an elec
tor of Stanford precinct 38M». Thla
1 line of evidence had not been complet
ed when court adjourned.
! Another peculiar phase of the elec
tion investigation was brought out
when John E Moran, clerk and record
er of Cascade county, was placed on
the stand and produced the registers
and poll books of the precinct* of Gey.
ser, Raynesford and Dry Wolf, form
erly in Cascade county.
Asked by the court how he expected
to show that « 1 ! the alleged illegal
votes in those precincts had been cast
for Stanford, Judge Rasch said that if
he was unable to prove any particular
votes the court could apportion such
enter-|.. , . . .. . . .
votes upon the basis of the total
i number of vote* cast for each of the
two candidates.
Over the objection of counsel for
j Stanford. Judge Rasch was allowed to
follow out that sort of enquiry
Mr. Moran read from the poll and reg
! inters of those precinct* the names of
i those by whom it wa* indicated ah
! »ent voters' ballot* had been cast,
! there being three in Raynesford pre
! cinct, 12 in Dry Wolf and nine in Gey
and
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| Judge'r«rrol! hü JfSS? uÏTÎÎaSÎ
.fins ïïï
»fawsai-js
of November 2 . 1920. but that they
had discredited a sufficient number of
Stanford's votes to give them a clear
ma jority for Hobson. W
Under the election returns Stanford
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Taxes for this year amounting to
|288,061 have been collected to date
top , r Tr» .„, r , r Kre .1 C An^rotr«
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living a balance of more than In
600,000 to be collected in the Seven re
Million and a Half Taxes
Yet Remain to be Paid
maintng day* before they become da.
lit- 1 linjuent. Mr, Andretta say* his office
the was chargd with the collection of |I,
the 888,000, The amount paid so far 1 *
not much larger than the total cöl
is lecied at thét same time last year, he
; said.
; None of the large corporations have
paid their taxes, according to the
treasurer. Twenty of the largest con
cern* of the county have taxes aggre
gating $760,000, or nearly half the
amount to be collected, and Mr. An
drefta is 'expecting the corporation
a* payment* within the next few days,
in For the convenience of those tsxpay
ers who have found irregularities In
' their tax lists, an information window
• » now being maintained at tbe treae
urer's office, where such irregularities
should be reported as soon a* possible.
County Treaurer Andretta predicts
that 86 per cent of the taxes will be
collected before 6 o'clock, November
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30. when unpaid amounts become 4e
linquent,
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of the local banks.
County taxes may be paid at any
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Mrs. Lindsay Gels Judg
ment Against Daughter
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The promissory note action of Ma
tilda Lindsay against Clara MeCar
t hy began in Judge Leslie's court last
Saturday afternoon,
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'The plaintiff,
was formerly the defendant
mother-in-law, instituted the suit to
collect three
$1000 each.
promissory notes for
Defendant admitted on
jhe stand Saturday that »be had iign
tk* notes, but that her mind wa*
!not In a normal condition when she did
so. The note* were signed the day af
ter her husband's death, the testimony
showed, and she -declared that grief
had left her in a mental condition that
rendered her not capable of acting aa
a free agent in signing the paper
that there had been no conatdei
for the execution of tbe notes,
The testimony in the esse was com
pleted Monday afternoon and argu
ment heard Tuesday by Judge Leslie
and the jury.
Attorney Leo C. OraybilJ appeared
for the plaintiff. Mrs. Prana Rush,
daughter ef the plaintiff, was a m o ng
; also
ration
the witness»« examined In the aase.
The case went
o'clock Tuesday i
being returned at 2 o'cleck. The
found for the plaintiff hi the
amount of the notea, with intonst.
to the jdry at H
morning, ths vsföfet
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