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SUIT sm TO TEST HUD SALE •Ase will rsrr the right of COUNTIES TO SELL ON PAYMENT PLAN SUPREME COURT WILL DECIDE Injunction Asked to Restrain the Sals - of $40,000 Worth of Fenpus County Land ' The question of whether a county may sell Its property on the time pay ment plan will bo decided by the state supreme court in the case brought be fore that body by A. A. Franzke of Le Wigtown, against the county com mlssloners of~Fergus county. Franxke petitioned the court for a writ of injunction to restrain the sale of $40,000 worth of real estate which is advertised by the county commis sioners of Fergus county. A temporary Issued with order to show cause. In his petition Franzke alleges that the county of Fergus acquired the land Involved by accepting It from the de funct First National bank of Fargus county In payment of $40,000 of de posits the county had with the bank at the time of Its closing. He alleges that at* a matter of law tha county commis sioners have.no right to dispose of the county's real estate except for cash. The advertisement calling for the sale of the land, he says, declares that tha land will be sold at auction and the purchase price may be made In pay ments covering a period of time. Relocate Old Fort I Old Fort McKenzie has been relo cated by a party composed of O, C. Schmidt, J. T. Phelan and Frank Lell of Port Benton, acting In behalf of the commercial club on a suggestion made by C. B. Power of Helena, who out lined tho approximate location of the old fort. Fort McKenzie was one of the earl iest forts to be established In the west. It was built In 1832 and served as a trading post for the American Fur company. This fort was one of sev eral forts built near the present loca tion of Fort Benton. log the historic site. By digging Into the earth about one and one-half feet they found a layer of ashes and charred wood, part of which Is now petrified. Under this layer they found trade beads, broken clay pipes and stems, buttons and other small articles. Efforts will also he made to relocate Fort Lewis so that when the Montana Pioneer society meets there this sum mer, members may make excursions to these points. County Attorneys Aldsd In an effort to aid connty attorneys In preparing actions for liquor taw vio lations which will withstand attack In court, Attorney General L. A. Foot Is •ending to each prosecutor a sample set of forms to cover the usual actions under the provisions of these laws and the various procedures thereunder. (There are 20 form in the set. They have been prepared by E. E. Collins, assistant attorney general, In charge it prohibition work, and have occupied 'his spare time for several months. The preparation of these forms was undertaken by the state department when It became evident that many of the connty prosecutors lacked either T time or library facilities, or boeh, to properly work out many of the papers. Station to bs Kept Livestock feeding experiments will be continued at the Asslnnlbolne sta tion st least another year, according to George Morgan, who has returned to Havre from Washington where he •pent several weeks assisting the de partment of agriculture In the com pilation of the station's annual report When Mr. Morgan left Havre he was not sure the livestock activities would be continued, he said, but officials at Washington approved plans for at least one more year's effort In that re spect. Arrangements were made also for publication of the result of experl , merits with livestock at the station during the last four years. These re ports will probably be published through the Montana experiment sta Authority has been given the local board of Montana State university, Missoula, to borrow $50.000 for con struction of a new residence hall. The ball Is to cost approximately $110,000. Montana Power company earned $6.29 a share on the common in T925 against $4.48 a share the year before. Gross earnings rose to $8.572.241 from $8.082,201. Surplus was $3.868.879 af ter interest, taxe* and depreciation, but before dividend, against $2,911,288 In 1924. Total surplus Increased to $5,666,450. Improvement* In the Northern Pa cific hospital at Missoula, to cost $ 5 , 090 have been announced by President H. B, Smith of the Northern Pacific Bénéficia] association who has been visiting hospitals and other property ef the organization along the line. war. 4t«1 rerenfly at the Northern Pa Üfk hospital at Giendive Loch re n Donnelly, superintendent of the mining operations of tbe North western Improvement company at Ooi «tri»; aud of President Charles DeooeHy of ths Northern Pacific rail THE SUfflEfE MT MES TAX CASE •tats Laves Ars Held Undlscriminat log in Appeals From Custer . Montana taxation laws do not dis criminate against national banka des pite the fact that the stock of national banks la taxed on a higher percentage of Its value than assessments other moneyed capital, the state supreme court says. The Court affirms the decision of the district court for Cutter county in the suits of the Commercial National bank of Miles Olty and the Miles City Na tional bank, seeking to recover taxes paid ander protest to Custer county. "Investments by Individual citlsens in bonds, notes or other evidences of Indebtedness *not engaged in the bank ing or Investment business and repre senting merely personal Investments* are not to be treated or considered In the character of moneyed capital com ing rçlthln the Inhibition of the federal statute," Justice Galen declares, speaking for the court. "Where money Is not so employed as to come Into competition with the busi ness of national banks, although In n general sense It Is *moneyed capital,' It Is within the province of the stats to tax It at a different rate from bank ing capital." Tralsart Stale Tabloids Montana's American Legion conven tion will be held at Great Falls. June 17, 18 and 19, It has been announced by State Adjutant W. L. Jones. Increased traffic on the street car lines of Great Falls has made neces sary the purchase of three new cars, which will be used to supplement the 19 now In operation on ths various lines of the city. The Montana State College Regi mental band win make Its annual spring tour Into north central Montana during the first part of Aprtt. Direc tor Louis L. Howard is taking 81 mu sicians on the trip and this year has a varied program to offer to music lov ers of the state. Announcement has been made that the Agricultural Credit corporation will Invest more than $500,000 In aheep thla year for the farms In Montana and North Dakota, by S. N. Poole, livestock agent for the Soo line, who declared that thla state will be the first in the northwest to regain sta bility. After having been closed down since Christmas the plant of the Somers Lumber company near Kullspell, has start«! operating again Manager W. R. Ballon! has announced. Weather con ditions would have permitted of the operation of the mill all winter, hut a shutdown was ordered to give oppor tunity for certain changes to be made In the plant. C. N. Burgess of Townsend, a former state senator from Broadwater coun ty, has been appointed by the state in dustrial accident board to the position of holler Inspector, which has been va cant for more than a year following the retirement of J. H. Taylor, who formerly filled the position under the Dixon administration. Mr. Burgess took over the work April 1. John R. McQuIgg, national com mander of the American Legion, and John R. Quinn, former commander, are two of the notables who are cer tain to be in attendance at the annual convention of the Montana department of the American Legion, to he held at Great Falls June 17, 18 and 19. Presi dent Coolldge. Vice President Dawes and General Pershing have been in vited. The new settler need not fear In coming to Montana that he will lack opportunity to mingle with fratenlal brothers of his own particular desire, declares the state department* of agri culture In an article prepared for the new Montana year book, which la aoon to be Issued. About every fraternal organisation la represented in the state, It Is said. Among the larger are mentioned the Masons with 143 lodges and a total membership of 19, 267; the Elks, with a membership of 7,560 In 1925. In 1925 there were 173 Boy Scout troops with a total member ship of 3,879. 21,481 Coyotes In Forests Despite the operations of a bounty law and the work of the salaried hunt ers of the United States biological survey, there are still 21,431 coyotes In the boundaries of ths national forests of Montana alone.» The estimate Is made by the forest officials and Is based upon observation and counts made by rangers. The results of the annual survey, a copy -of which has been received by State Game Warden Robert A. HUL show that there are listed, also, as predatory animals with in the forest*. 8,689 cats or lynx, 475 mountain Hons and 168 wolves. fundamental viewpoint In Billing» The member* of various Billing» churches numbering about 300. have formed an organisation to defend the churches against the modernist ideas Notlflcation has just been received of the appointment of Jack Habtey of Lew!»town as » member of the Ki wanls International committee oa agri culture. The work of this committee of Klwants international is to foster better feeling between the psopts of the country district* and those of the cttls*. V OMAc*t*vDtiw percent fr~~3? fWVWMM ' IDO A _ oc» Mm —— UL I v . ■ * i AOV aaOc Ô onrcBu •4 »ocn Crystal Set Circuit Adjustment of Detector Is Fixad by tha Manufacturers and Remains Permanent By WILMER A TRINKLE In Philadelphia Public Ledger. One of the greatest drawbacks In the average crystal receiver la the lack of selectivity. To separate suc cessfully broadcasting stations when several local stations are on the air la an absolute necessity If good uni form reception la to be obtained. The aet here described la one de signed to meet the above require ments. The selectivity Is quite good and testing thla set In the heart of the dty the writer was able easily to separate the Philadelphia stations and also to receive programs from WJZ, when that station was broadcasting through 2XAR, its 50-kllowatt station at Bound Brook. The detector circuit here shown will be familiar to the old operators who regarded It as one of the most reli able In a fixed type and Is shown in the circuit diagram. It may be used In the usual type of circuit which does not require a battery, but detec tor sensitivity is materially Increased by the use of an applied voltage that can be regulated to a fine degree. This is regulated In the set here de scribed by a potentiometer. The adjustment of this detector Is fixed by the manufacturers and re mains permanent. The crystal here used Is of the carborundum type and the contact pressure Is quite heavy. Ths Parts Nssded. The parts used to construct the set here described are as followes: One fixed carborundum detector. One aero-coil coupler. , One variable condenser .00035 mfd. capacity. One fixed condenser, .001 mfd. ca pacity. One potentiometer, 290 ohms. One single-circuit Jack. Four engraved binding posts marked as follow : Ant* Ond., A—, A+> One panel. 7 by 10 inches. One wooden sub-base, 7 by 8 inches. One 4-lncb dial. Two lengths of No. 14 bos wire. One dry-cell, one and a half volts. The coupler used Is of the single layer solenoid type of the air-core va riety and consists of two windings. The outside coll is the secondary, la three Inches In diameter and consists of 61 turns of No. 22 double cotton covered wire. The primary Is wound Inside of the secondary and near one end. It consists of seven taras of the Best Amplifier for Reducing Distortion No doubt there are a number who have one-tube sets with which they would be quite satisfied If they gave more volume, will accomplish this object The resistance coupled amplifier ta one of the best amplifiers for distor tionless reception. It Is a very easy amplifier to build, costs less than any other form of amplifier, takes up llttla Adding amplification jrCLOBOUteK S.004 na. conn tews «v»o usa*. *1 iw* eno iMx rjoot a** cow JMtfc Utm Lt*K T 5 ? r*°— FIX CONS HELtMlENI Resistance Coupled Amplifier Best for Dlstortlonlon Reception. room, and compared with other ampli fiers, draws teas current from the "B" batteries. On the other band. It has some dis advantages, It requires three tubes to give about tbe same results as are secured with two tubes in a trans former coupled amplifier. Another dis advantage of this amplifier Is that It takes more "B" battery voltage, up to 186 volt*, as against 90 volts re quired for other types. As yen can see by the circuit dia gram shown. It consists principally of a aerie* ot re u le tancea . The condensers «wed vary from .006 to .06. The beat capacity will be found only by experi t However, la most ca la correct If you are using dry cell taboo, you will bare to vary the resis tors which make up the secondary on 006 HI you find those that glva tbe best results. same sise wire as the secondary and Is space-wound. This coupler covers the broadcast wave-length bond when tuned with a .00035 condenser. The condenser used Is of the new straight-line frequency type and baa a maximum capacity of .00085 mfd. It Is quite compact and requires but lit tle more room than tho old-fashioned, straight-line capacity type. The nse of this condenser In conjunction with the specified coll gives uniform fre quency spacing on toning dial. The crystal detector nsed la a fixed carborundum and Is completely sealed In. The user does not need to make any adjustments at all. One terminal Is marked A and the other O. These figures are Indicated In the cl rep It dia gram, and the detector booked up In that fashion. However, try the detec tor both In the position shown and also reversed to ascertain which way it works the better In your own par ticular set. The voltage of the bat tery used In this particular detector circuit Is varied by the use of the potentiometer so that the best oper ating point may be found. Laying Out ths Pansl. The laying out of the panel Is quite simple, and the drilling Is cut down to a minimum. Starting from the left of the panel, measure In three Inches and up three and one-half Inches to locate the center of the condenser. The potentiometer Is mounted two and one-half Inches In from the right hand edge of the panel and la on a line with the center of the condenser. The phone Jack la mounted four and one-quarter inches In from the right hand edge and one Inch and a half up from the bottom. By studying care fully the' rear view of this receiver, the other Instruments can very readily be mounted tn their respective po sitions. Wiring the set may then be begun, and by carefully following the circuit diagram, no trouble should be expe rienced. After the entire set has been as sembled and wired, the antenna and ground should be connected to their respective posts, and a one and one half-volt dry cell connected to the A posts. By manipulating the ton In# dial and potentiometer adjustment. It should now be possible to tune tn broadcasts. It Is then time to try re versing the polarity of the dry cell and also of the crystal detector. After the beat combination is found, do not change IL Slow Charge It Best for Your Radio Battery Storage batteries are charged by sending a direct electric current through them In the opposite direction to tho current flow on discharge. For the usual six-volt battery, the charging current ordinarily used will be from two to five amperes. In order to obtain such a rate of current flow various types of battery chargers are used. These convert the source of supply to which they are connected into di rect current. If the *honce is alternat ing current, and reduce the voltage to the proper value for charging the bat tery at the current rate It requires. Ceils should not be overcharged, be cause of the danger of buckling the plates, due to surface expansion. If the plates become sufficiently bdekled. Internal short circuit may be caused, resulting In bad sulphatloo. Overcharge, however, is not nearly so liable to damage the battery as over discharge. How to Tell Values of Different Grid Leaks A suitable set of .values for a grid leak would be one megohm, two meg ohms, three megohms, five megohm* and seven megohms. A means may be provided for bringing these values tn action which may be secured by wir ing a tap switch so that It may be used to switch any one of a number of grip teaks into tho circuit. This will provide a definite, positiv« value of grid resistance to salt tbe reqrfîre ONDtx of various group» of stations, ac cording to their distance and power. How CmuScamnr OpsmatM The fixed condenser In the grid efr cull of a resistance coupled audio amplifier la an Important part ot tbe apparatus, as (t allow* the radio fre •««Key current on the plate of the previous tube to reacb the grid of the next, hut prevent» the D C, plate battery voltage firom reaching the grid if: Montana Ranci I KM XnO C *Xt X XK »J CgXXtKKM3aOOOI _ BjJOHN DEXTER Fanners of Flgthead, Lincoln and Sanders counties will have at least s thousand more acres of land available for cultivation this year than last as a result of the land clearing operations in these counties during the last tew month* Since October six carloads of pyrotol, the government salvaged war explosive which Is sold to, farmers at cost, have been shipped Into these counties through the activities of coun ty agricultural agents. In all, more than 125,000 pounds of pyrotol have been used for blowing out stamps dar ing the past fall and winter; Flathead county using 77,000 pounds. Lincoln county 81,700 pounds and Sanders 16, 500 pounds. Under government regu lations the explosive is shipped In car load lots only farmers In the different agricultural communities In western pooled this requirement. The Montana Ex tension Service has conducted a num ber of demonstrations In the western Montana counties showing the most approved methods of using the ex plosive. These demonstrations have been directed by H. H. Murdock, pro fessor of agricultural engineering at Montana State College. Similar meet ings will be held in Lincoln county during the spring months and at the same time a new device known as a stump burner will be tried out so that farmers will have an opportunity o» comparing the efficiency of different methods of land clearing. marketed and the remainder la being put through the cleaning plant as rap tdly as possible to supply orders on hand. The present season Is one of the most successful ever enjoyed by the alfalfa organization. Prices are a little lower this year than for some time but the high per acre yield ob talned is offsetting the decrease in price so that the alfalfa seed growers feel well pleased with the year's bust Approximately half of the 900,000 pound crop of alfalfa seed harvested last fall by the Northern Montana Al falfa Growers' Association has been _ css. seed produced this year was registered Grimm, the rest being common seed. The rapid substitution of Grimm for common alfalfa among the northern Montana seed growers will mean the complete elimination of common seed In a few years. G S Bills prominent Judith Gap at tornev, who, besides his law business, . * — rrmA is also extensively engaged In g and ranching, tells of his experiment with sweet clover. He Is well pleased with the results, and that he Is putting In 75 acres of that crop this year. He stated that In the neighborhood of 2,000 acres of sweet clover Is being raised In the Judith Gap section this _ __ year. Mr. Bills has great confidence in north Wheatland county as a future dairying section. Land in Judith Basin and Fergus I counties recently offered at special sales. netted the State of Montana nearly $40,000. At Stanford, on the I 15th of March, I. M. Brandjord. regls ter of state lands, disposed of 000.28 acres at an average price of $15.42 an total of $9,255.50. At Lewis town, on the next day he sold 1,680 acres' for $29,700, or an average of $17 71% an acre. The highest price paid for any parcel at this sale was $28 an acre potato consumption throughout the country during the past winter doe to high prices. As a result they expect the potato market to remain fairly steady during the spring months in spire of the exceptionally short crop of potatoes produced last year. -Many gorwers In the country have held po tatoes through the winter, expecting a sharp upturn In prices In the spring. 1 Market experts are announcing that there has been a marked redaction tn A check-up on agricultural activities on Indian reservations daring the post year hy the Bureon of Indian Affairs, Indiana the leaders In the United are among State* In their agricultural work. An Interesting Item record* the perform snre of Stsndlngelk. s 64 year old ln dian on the Tongue River Reservation, who put in a five-acre patch of alfalfa and last year harvested from $000 to $700 worth of alfalfa seed. Last month's meeting of the Sun River Poultry Association was given over to s discussion of cooperative marketing. Tbe association Is plan nlag to extend Its marketing activities during the year so that It will ulti mately handle all of the poultry pro ducts of Its member*. J. R. BcotL R. R. Waddell, «täte llveetock epee president of the Montana State Poul try Association, was the chief speaker at the meeting. lallst of Boaeman and Otaries Monnt Joy, county agent, were present at a meeting ot wool growers tn Hobswa recently Those present were further assisted h» their discussion of forming « pool by M. K StefcMas. secretary of the Montana Woo! Growers aaaoclatk» thfc» meeting was another activity *f Hobeon rommanlty <S*h Improve Flock at Time of Shearing , Shearing dme often « real oppor tunity for sheepmen to Improve their flock*, advises R L. Waddell, Irre stock specialist for the Montana Ex tension Service.' With wool price* past the peak stage It la particularly Important to bring the flock op to Iks I highest possible point of efficient pro daction and one of the beat way* of doing this is to call out si I ewes that »bear lees than seven pound* of wool, To do this each fleece is weighed at shearing time and the light , shearers *b branded that they may he easily Identified and marketed before tho band Is turned out on «ummer pasture. In pointing out the possibilities of rate; Ing the average fleece weight of the flek by culling, the live stock special ist refers to a recent experiment con ducted In a flock in one of the neigh boring states. In this band of 1545 sheep 241 fleeces were found which weighed less than seven pounds when the culling started In 1928- The fol lowing year the standard was raised to 7.5 pounds and but 170 fell below this mark, while last year, with the standard raised to eight pound*, but 150 sheep were found to shear less than the standard. As a result of the culling the average fleece weight of the band was increased from 8.8 pounds In 1923 to 9.9 pounds In 1925. Last year there were 771 sheep which sheared 10 pounds or more while at the beginning of the experiment there were but 180 In this high shearing class. The Milk-for-Health campaign held j In Osliatjn county during the week of | March 22-28 was one of the most sue; cessful cooperative ventures ever con ducted In the state. Farmers and business men of the county Joined hands In the effort to point oat the food value of milk and Its relation to health. Practically every organization concerned with civic development or community welfare took an active part tn the campaign. The results of the campaign will be apparent when the second health survey among school children Is made during the latter part of April. The first survey, completed before the campaign started, showed about the usual percentage of nnder weight children In the schools of the connty and a low milk consumption, The final survey will show the lu re | suit of the campaign and will deter mine the effect upon the health of j school children. Similar campaign* are hq|pg planned In other counties of | the state, Completing a five and one-half months continuous run, the picking room at the plant of the Great West era Seed company at Bridger recently finished and the picking room force, ^ ta nnmbf , r wn8 lald off until next faJ) g)nw 0ctober 5 1925, more thsn ^qqq bushels of seed peas have over 20 picking tables. The , agt to ^ sorted was the seed to ^ distributed among contract growers for 1926 p , antjDg . Earlier handled seed peas have been shipped to destl aB fg r «jetant as Maine. Sev eral carloads went to Canada, some to Ohio, and other cartot shipments were Wiled to points In New York. The bulk of the seed crop, however, was sent to Wisconsin, for seed for con tract growers of the Lange canning In terests. Richland county farmers are mak tug plans now to be on a 100 per cent pure seed basis In 1927. At recent meetings held tn connection with "Seed Exchange Day" In the commun Itles of Sioux Pass, Andes, Brorron and Brockton, farmers, almost unanr mously, pledged themselves to grow sufficient pure Marquis wheat seed this year to meet the planting require ments for 1927. Last year Richland connty farmers predated approximate 25,000 bushels of pure seed grain. - - Farmers Educational and Co operatjT( , y nlon> one'of the strongest tnrm organization* In the state, 1» pj annlng to establish a cbeeae factory gt Absarokee, Stillwater connty. A survey is now being made to determine the number of cows I« the surrounding territory which could be depended np to support the enterprise. A meet , ng w ni be held at an early date to ma g e * definite decision on the pro^ poggl. At a meeting of the Cascade County Oow Testing Association last month It was decided to assess esch member a ^ ^ three dollars a month for each ^ association and an addlt 1ona ) ft*. 0 f ten cent aper month for <JOW under test. The Cascade Association is the largest organisation of its kind in the state, with more than 400 cows under test. Brio Holman Is the official tester for the association. As evidence of the fSct that the last winter has been extremely mild P. J. Fadhl. living about three miles east of Miles Oty. brought In some carrots that were planted last summer, having come through the winter without being frozen. Mr. Fadhi says that he dug the vegetables up from a depth of about Mx Inches and recovered more qnkrt« bad tt nailtg the« T The générai level of farm prices was slightly lower In February than a ymr ago. Grain prices showed a de crease of 88 per cent, largely due to (be low price of com Meat prices «ran » P*r not higher, with b urs ard «hewing the great«** Increase