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COURT ACTION FOB ANNULMENT BEGUN i CIVIL SUITS TO PREVENT FUR THER EXTRACTION OF GOV ERNMENT OIL INSTIGATED K& POMERENE HEADS COUNSEL Criminal Action, If Any, Awaits More Detailed Study of Sketchy Investigation Evidence », Washington.—Court action In the oil lease cases was Initiated this week by special government counsel while the senate oil committee followed further the trail of the celebrated McLean telegrams. The first step of counsel will be to orlng civil action looking to the stop page of the extraction of oil from the naval reserves in California and Wyo silng and the annulment of the leases ■warded by Albert B. Fall, as secre tary of the Interior, to Doheny and Sinclair Interests. 1 Any criminal action growing out of the oil scandal must await a more de tailed study of the testimony adduced oefore the senate committee and an Independent investigation to fill in gaps In that testimony. Atlee Pomerene, former senator from Ohio, will bsve more or less gen era! charge op the civil proceedings while Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, will devote himself and his staff prin cipally to the study of the criminal phases of the case. President Ooolidge Is expected to ap point additional special counsel to prosecute actions looking to the re covery to the federal government of sections 16 and 86 in the Elk Hills re serve In California, now operated by - the Standard Oil company of Califor nia. The executive will select counsel es pecially learned In land law to prose cute this case, Inasmuch as the chief point at Issue Is whether these sections were known to be mineral bearing at the time the state of California ob tained them as school lands upon the grant of statehood. DAUGHERTY DEFYING OOOLIDGE NEW YORK BANKER SAYS New York.—President Coolldge has asked for the resignation of Attorney General Daugherty, but has not re ceived It, Frank A. Vanderllp, retired banker, declared In an address here. Asked to elaborate on bis assertion, or to tell from whom he had obtained t^e, information, Mr. Vanderllp was uncommunicative. "I will stand on that statement, that's all," he told newspaper men. Mr. Vanderllp added In his speech, however, that he had sent word to the president, but did not know whether bis communication had been —that Daugherty should not lowed to resign If the reslgndt to he accompanied by a "whitewash letter." Mr. Vanderllp sold n new political party would he formed If the president did not "go through with the present investigation In Washington, where ever it leads, and purify the federal government." ■elved al ion was t OREGON STATE COLLEGE AT - WORK ON HAY FEVER CURE . Corvallis, Ore.—Pollens to prevent hay fever are being prepared by the Oregon college botany department. The person« treated are Inoculated with a prepared solution containing pollen before the pollens of plants ap pear In the spring. Pollens carried hy the wind and not those carried hy Insects are the com mon ones which give hay fever, ac cording to Dr. Helen M. Gllkey. as sistant professor of botany. Different persons are affected by different pol lens. When pollen Is found that affects a person, he ts treated by a series of ln , oculatlons, which make him develop a resistance against that kind of pol len. These treatments are given early enough so that the person will be Im mune by the time the pollens are ripe in the spring. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAA A A Bones for Ma Jongg Galveston, Texas.—Three car A A loads of selected shin bones A A from cows slaughtered at a A A Chicago packing house were A A exported from Galveston on the A A steamship Patrick Henry for A A Japan where they will be re- A A exported to China for the man- A A nfactnre of mah Jongg sets. A The popularity of the game In A A the United States and South A A America is said to have caused A A a large demand for the bones. A A A A ♦ A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - FIREMEN SEARCH RUINS OF EXPLOSION WRECKED TOWN New Brunswick. N. J.—Aided by tractors to tear asunder the masses of fir* welded steel girders and other debris, firemen and volunteer« at the tew» of Nixon are working to recover the bodies of many dead sa the result «T • T. *. T. «spioMon that wiped out that town retehöy Forty are thought to be busied beneath the ruins. Äghtoo# Mites have been recovered, «the t «rifle explosion occurred la tbs r r±rrrE —Some time ago A. B. Bohloen and family, of Woonsocket, 8. D., moved from that place to a Fergus county farm. In their Immigrant car came fine collie dog. which a few day* after arrival disappeared. News from old neighbors In the vicinity of Woon socket, recently received,,Is to the ef fect that the dog has returned to the old home, having presumably traveled the entire distance of 800 miles on Wot. Pondera Will Ship Poultry.—Recent ly the Pondera County Poultry Grow ers association, of Conrad and Valler, asked for bids on poultry and turkeys in car load lots. The bid of J. H. White and Company, of Chicago, has been accepted and the first carload left Conrad on March 1. Each ship ment must be of 24,000 pounds. Prices considerably higher than If the birds were marketed Individually. A. M. Blackford, a rancher on the up per Box Elder, near Ekalaka, recently attempted to doctor a three-year-old steer suffering a barbed wire cut the average Steer Resented Medical Aid.—When animal backed him up against a bay stack, gored him through the arm and trampled him severely. No further effort bas been' made to render first Fraak Egg.—A White Plymouth flock hen of K. D. McCurdy, of Cot* «mod, recently laid an egg measurla, Sues Sheriff for Injury.—Earl Ma aid to the vicious animal. eight and one-quarter Inches the long way and six Inches around, weighing three and one-half ounces. The egg was sent to the Powder River Examin er and Is on exhibition In that news paper office. lone, of Hamilton, has brought suit against Sheriff Earl Lockrldge, Rnval II county, alleging damupesto the ex-j tent of $7.000 clolmed to have been In- | curred when he was shot In the leg hy the sheriff who was attempting to take him to Jail. Good Price for Wheat.—George j Fowlle and F. A. McDonald, wheat growers of near White Sulphur car of mhim wheat to Minneapolis. The wheat weighed 624 pounds per bushel and sold for $1.20, six cents over tbs | Smallest Firs Loss.—In making his I market price. 9 WIN Have Special Train.—A special train carrying members of Al Bedoo temple of the Mystic Shrine from Bil lings to Kansas City to attend the 1924 Imperial coucll of thns order, will leave Billings on May 30. report Fire Marshall Hurst, of Sidney, I states that the fire loss In that place This Is believed to be the | j A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A was less than $100 In the entire year of 1923. smallest fire loss recorded In the state. I A A Gov. Joseph M. Dixon has Is- A A sued n proclamation closing A A Montana to all llvestock from A A Bans California Stock A A A California because of the re- A A 'ported prevalence of the foot A A and mouth disease la that «täte. A A The quarantine Is effectlnve A A Immediately. A A A AAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAA Over the Great Divide Planoar« *1 forty yooro Mo, or moro, who hovo como to tho o«4 ol tho troll ROSS—John T. Ross, who, coming from Novla Scotia In 1870, was one of the first locators In Argenta, and has since that time been actively engaged In the mining business at that place, died at his home there. SMITH—A. J- Smith, a Olvll war veteran, who, with h!s family located In the Yellowatone valley In 1871, and afterward moved to Boietnan, died V the home of hls daughter, Mrs Sol Frank, at Livingston. PARKER—L. C. Porker, former prominent mining man of Deer Lodge and a member of the state legislature in early days died at hls home In Sun Francisco. California, LOVE—William Love, one of the first white men to homestead In the Swan Lake country, and an old time prospector of that section, died at the Tea Kettle ranger station, where he made hls home with the ranger, near Columbia Falls. BEAN—Willard E. Bean, whe In 1882 arrived at Fort Benton via river steamer, later took up a claim In Fer gus county and engaged In the sheep business until 1906, when he sold out and moved to Billings, afterward lo cating ogaln on a large ranch In the Big Horn, died at a hospital la Har din. TERMINAL MARKET PRICES Quotation« of Interest to Montanans. Week Ending March 1. Minneapolis Grain : Wheat—(Mon tana Station basis) Dark Hard Winter, 86; Spring, 98; Rye, 64; Flax, (Du luth) ».57. ^ Chicago Livestock : Cattle — Top, $11.00, average. $10.00; Hogs, top. $7.10; Sheep, fat lambs, top, $15.76 ; ewes, $10.00. Boston Wool, territorial choice, 0L42 New York Metals ; «liver. $4 cts. oa. ; Oobw. U'*; Eing. 8M& MW MR *8 »LË mgs a j Anf , Itor George P Forter hag adTlae<j Letter to State Examiners Pointe Out Method of Shaving Recant Appropriations Half Million An additional half million dollars can be shaved from the general fund appropriations as made by the last regular legislative assembly and the recent extraordinary session. State the board of examiners of which Gov ernor Dixon i$ president The auditor I addressed a letter to the board with an estimate "of the requirements of the beneficiaries under said appropria | tlons and possible percentage of reduc tion, based upon past history, and J °lher data In possession of this office." 11* ie letter concludes: I " It wl)1 be observed that the esti mates Indicate that It Is possible to 8 "* e t0 the Funeral fund more than | $®00-000 during the fiscal year ending June 30, .1924, by observing due omy and this without impairing In the j slightest degree the efficiency of departments, offices, boards, ( tuflons In question." econ any or instl The reductions propose dby the state I auditor range from one per cent fer the supreme court expense to 42 per cent for the school of mines nialnte | nance, the latter proposed cat totaling $30,80©. The auditor suggests that the appropriation for the agricultural col I lege maintenance and expense account he trimmed $96,947, with additional ( cu * 8 °f $34,622 for the experiment sta tion expense and $39,076 for the farm ers' extension work. From the univer sity maintenance he would pare $02, 714 and from the Insane asylum main tenance $»0,000. From the normal school the auditor's figures propose a reduction of $42.087 and from the fund | for county attorneys' salaries, $18,000. As concern? 29 funds he has mended no reductions. ' " Tr ■ ■'—■ T ' ; — ARSENIC OUTPUT OF JARDINE recoin NFARLY DOUBLED LAST YEAR Operations of the Jardine Mining company of Livingston for the last vear an( j activities planned tor the new y Pnr nre outlined In the report of the Pomp nny. Just Issued for the bene :j t 0 f the public'and stockholders, rear amounted to 381 tons, containing $16.788.80 In gold and $30.030 In »enlc, a total of $47.743.30 In the 114 tons «f crude arsenic accrued In the plant. Improvements in the milling will .In crease the capacity from 140 tons to 175 or 200 tons a day. Considerable development was done In the mine, a new ore body being opened up In the "Iron Duke. The stocks of concentrates for the ar A tunnel 18 feet In width and 40 feet deep was sunk and 425 feet driven In tunnel No. 22. A total of 44,429 tons of ore was mined and milled at a cost of $4 40 To carry on the company's mining and milling operations and con «traction work 140 ment P pr ton were em ployed. Further additions to the lions Ipg facilities and increase In the Aorce employed Is contemplated the cmntng season. - STATE CHECKER ASSOCIATION IN INTERESTING TOURNAMENT The checker tournament of the Mon tana Checker association was held at the Y. M. C. A.. Helena, February 22. 23 and 24, and was played out ex ceptlng the finals which were post poned to a later date not yet deter mined. The tournament was a pro nounced success, and was the hardest fongtif battle of any hitherto conduct ed. The result of the first round was Henry H. Lepper of Glasgow. 29 points; Albert Goldherry. Springdale, 27 points; George E. Opok. Helena. 20 points; Dr. R. R. Frailer, Helena, 25 points; Thomas Éowe, Butte. 25 points; John Goldherry, Springdale. 20 points, and Jack Williams, Helena, 16 {mints. George E. Cook was elected presi dent for the ensuing year, and Dr. R, R. Frailer, secretary and treasurer. Razing Jail The Cascade county commissioners have awarded the contract for disman tling and removing the olid county Jail at Great Falls to Albert J. Fousek. He will pay the county $50 In addition to doing the work and taking posses»* slon of the material with the excep tion of the Iron and steel In the struc ture. There were nln bidders, most of whom wanted to be paid by the county for the Job. Membership 1,027 ^ As a result of the fburday mem bership drive conducted by 100 mem bers last week, the Butte chamber of commerce now has a membership of 1,027. During the Intensive drive, 189 new members were secured. The ac tivity will continue until the ^ps^d goal o fl,200 members has been at tained. Shot In Ktdnaye; Walke 5 Mile« Edmund Wagner. 17, of Bonner, walked fire mile« to Dad help after his Nver and kidney had been punc ttired by a ballet. He had been out with hls .22 caliber rifle and at the time of the accident had been thrust ing at a piece of ice In a small stream. He was leaning forward, gripping the gun by the nraxzie, when It exploded The boy started back to Bonner and had walked about five mRea when be was met by hls sister, who teak him to tha city and called a physician. Tka < ♦ •490 Ford Track tote aAetaai body sad «ab A CHASSIS ONLY $37000 Prieto. A Detroit * I IfîîîlTnnnïïflfltllI i Mrs •mitt •Th* Ford irfl ttaft A New Ford Steel Truck Body 0 The Ford Motor Company making the body readily adaptable production of a wr general use. Screen aides and body and steel end doors may easily be installed. announces the new all-ateel weather-proof cab, mounted on This new body, built of heavy the famous Ford one-ton worm* sheet steel strongly reinforced drive chassis, forming a complete and riveted, is designed to stand h aul a ge unit at the remarkably up under the most se v e re usage, low price of $490. Loading space is four feet by seven feet two inches. r Steel flare boards and end gate with sockets permit the use of The weather*proof cab is stakes and high aide boards or the mounting of a canopy top, fitted with r e m o v able, door-opening -—- curtains. Tkm Cm : Authorized Ford Dealers - 1 1 CAR.S * TRUCKS - TRACTOJRS umrnmmmmmmmmmm iniinimimililiilllllll GOV BEANS HOI VEI mm io nom Adverse Cllmatical Conditions and Insect Peste Make this Legume a Doubtful Crop In answer to the question "Are soy beans a good crop for Montana?" Prof. Clyde McKee, agronomist at Montana State College, states that In view of the present stage' of adaption of the soy bean to Montana conditions It Is still best to go rather slow with this crop. Individual farmers ipay well idant a small area to soy beans and with the continuation and extension of such test work an adaption will no doubt take place similar to that which has been brought about with corn. In work curried on at the Montana" Ex periment Station in 1823, IX varieties of soy beans were tested out, three va rieties Indicated a superiority over the others under Montana conditions and the best of these was the variety known as Wisconsin Early Black. This Is by no means conclusive advises Mr. McKee, and should not he accepted as than a preliminary Indication. August Vaux of Sidney, one of the farmers of the state who has tried growing soy beans with some degree of success, states that soy beans grew well on his place on the Lower Yel lowstone until the grasshoppers came. He advises that where this pest Is prevalent there Is little use attempting to grow the crop as the. Insect seems to prefer the little tender soy bean plants above all other available food. Mr. Vaux advocates growing soy beans with corn and sowing the two crops at the same time. He recommends planting three seeds to the hill, the use more of the early varieties and clean cultl He believes that there are vation. good possibilities of developing the soy bean Into another good legume crop for Montana. NO POISON 18 FOUND IN PROPERLY PACKED FOOD There Is no danger of food poisoning from canned goods If the food Is put up properly according to directions 1 a sued by the Montana Extension Ser vice say« Miss Blanche Lee, extension leader of home economics. The dls known ns botulism Is caused by »•lise an organism which thrives In Improp erly canned food, have been hut a half dozen cases re ported to the State Board of Health, hut In each case the result has been fatal. Doctors believe that there are many more cases than those reported being lists In health reports under the In Montana there heading "ptomaine person log." rho *e rases where canned food looks or smells had. Miss Lee advises to take no chances but to dispose of It In by burning. If there Is a suspicion that canned good* have not been pri up properly but, there are no outward signs of spoiling It 1 »best to boll the food for at least 30 minute*. Authori ties state that the botulism organism is most commonly found in Improperly prepMAd canned vegetable«, such as spinach, beans, corn and so on. ★ AA AAAAAAAAAAAAAA A A A MANY ATTENDED FARM MEETINGS LAST YEAR A A A A A A 'A A' A A AAAAAAWAAAAA That both a community and a co operative spirit is developing among the formers of Montana Is revealed In the annual report of the Montana county agent leader. Last year 35, 253 farm folk attended meetings held In connection with demonstrations car ried on hy county agents. These peo ple represent 267 farming communities In 24 counties of the state and the meetings were held In connection with 2234 practical demonstrations. More tjian 45,000 people attended other Ings held by the extension represent atives during the year and in addition there were 182 extension schools and meetings held by the extension repre sentatives during the year and In ad dition there were 182 Extension schools and short courses held tjiroughout the state with a total attendance of 10,488. Since corn production has been one of the most outstanding developments in Montana agriculture In recent years and especially during the past year it Is significant that there were 442 corn meetings held In the state in 1923 by the Montana Extension Service and that these meetings were attended by 15,231 farm people, in 374 farming communities. SKIM MILK SUBSTITUTE FOR BIDDY'S MEAT SCRAP In feeding chickens for egg produc tion, skim milk may he substituted for all or part of the meat scrap In the ration at the rate of one and eight tenths gallons of skim milk for each pound of Äieat scrap, according to Miss Harriet E. Cushman of the Montana Extension Service. Since meat scraps or.milk furnish the necessary protein in the diet for proper egg production It Is highly essential that one or both of the above elements be Included in the poultry ration. In discussing the merits of these protein feeds. Mis? Cushman states that both will cost about the same, about 12 cents a day for each 100 hens, figuring meat scraps at five dollars per hundred pounds and skim milk at three cents a gallon, sume meat scraps or four gallons of skim milk a day. Milk may be considered as equal In value to the meat In the diet provided the birds can be induced to eat the necessary amount. If any difficulty is experienced In this, milk may be substituted for part of the meat scrap. ■ The 100 birds should con two and four-tenths pounds of In threading a needle with cotta* thread, put through the eye the end hanging away from the spool ; when threading with silk, cut the thread and putdnrough the eye the end from near : eat the spool. The reason for this Is that the two threads are twisted In op posite directions and this precaution prevents snarling. It la time to start planning the year's} poultry work. I iOlT OML MOISTURE DEEDED ID INGOOATOB Provisions for Humidity In Machines Insufficient Experiments at Colleflj^ State Show The lack of moisture in the Incu bator Is one of the main causes of chicks dying In the shells, according to results obtained in tests carried on by the Montana Experiment Station. Even though the ordinary moisture pans were kept filled an Insufficient supply was »{»parent, tlnued to die In the shell and over a period of eight years only 30 per cent of tlie fertile eggs hatched. Chicks con As soon as additional moisture was supplied the hatching percentage Increased and „ In 1923 the number of fertile hutched Increased to 65 per cent. Tlje application of additional mrfls eggs ture started two years ago In the mid dle of tji$ incubations season and the good results have continued. The moisture Is supplied by sprinkling the _ eggs twice a day with lukewarm water with a gradual Increase In. amount of water supplied with the approach of the hatching season. On the eighteenth day sprinkling was discontinued and the Incubator closed, Including venti lators. From the results of this ex periment It would appear that under high altitude conditions considerably more moisture can be used than is or dinarily recommended. Magpie Is Harmful Bird In ork carried on in Madison county last year over 10,000 magpies were de stroyed. The magpie Is Indicted on three counts; first, at branding time he Is a menace to cattle, often obliter ating brands, eating great holes In the sides of cattle and causing serious losses ; second, he Is such a destroyer of small chicks that some fanners find It Impossible to raise chickens because of hls ravages; third, he Is a pillager, robbing hens' nests and birds' nests, being especially partial to game birds. In the campaigns waged against him In Madison county last year over $80 was {>ald ont in bounties which accounts for 6,000 magpies, and the Sheridan Rod and Gun Club spent $30 in prises in magpie killing contests which counted for 4,000 more of the birds, making a total of 10,000 birds killed besides the destruction of a large num ber of eggs. nc - - Scorched food may be saved fre quently removing the pan from the stove Immediately and placing It In a pan of cold water. If the food Is then quickly removed, taking care not to Include any burnt particles, the scorch ed taste may not be apparent. Vegetables that have been stored in a root cellar for a considerable time often- develop a strong flavor. This may be removed by cooking In salted water with the cover off. Cabbage should not be cooked more than 20 or 80 minute s. i