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State Historie«! Library * <7>-; s . ' -Z i r. ■ E&S ' sss ET VOLUME S3. NUMBER 20. S2.00 PER TEAR IN ADVANCE. BELT, MONTANA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1026 VOTE ON TUESDAY. 001 VIEWS ON CANDIDATES AND ISSUES Tuesday is election day. Voters ■who do not exercise their privilege have no right to object to the result of the. election. Don't forget your friends on the county ticket nor fail to remember local candidate* on the legislative The lower house is composed of just ordinary men taken from every vralk in life and you will find that our local candidates will stack very favorably with the rest. Arthur Jardine would make ticket up a fine L ou and able County Attorney; Kommers is the best on the Com missioner ticket. W. H. Meigs is an ideal candidate for district jndge; Jeffries has demonstrated his fitness for county treasurer. Wuerthner will represent the county ably as Senator; Woodward made a fine record omtty surveyor and deserves your support. Bob Gordon never failed to get his man as sheriff and time has demonstrated his good judgment, Mrs. Appleyard represent« the out side and should get solid support from rural Cascade county as well the vote of fair-minded citizens of the county seat. Mady has made •wnviahle record as county ■while Mat Jacobson is entitled to support because of his war record.. Vote for Initiative No. 30 and protest against non-enforceable Vol stead laws and for a return to sanity. Vote down the five-mill school tax which will add just that much to your taxes. as as assessor Taka a chance upon the Montana, Automobile Association being able to | secure an amendment to Initiative No. 81 exempting gasoline used in ! farm work and vote for the Bill an Veto down the Hail measure. Judges Galen and Holloway ire entitled to court judges and Lee Dennis will carry almost a solid vote from Cas cade county. ARTIST RUSSELL LAST ROUND-UP Charles M. Russell, famous painter of Western died Sunday night suddenly following a heart attack. Funeral rites for the "cowboy artist" were held yesterday afternoon from the Episcopal church in Great Falls, the Rev. Christof Keller officiating. He is survived by his widow and one son. The order of Elks attended the funeral in a body and among those present at the funeral were . host men prominent in state and business affairs. Montana's scenes Probably no artist ever caught spirit of the West and placed it upon canvas for future generations. a* Russel] did. His paintings from henceforth will be priceless and those' possession of them will be envied. Many Belt people drove to Great Falls yesterday and attended the funeral services. GET SEED CORN NOW BEFORE PRICES SOAR crop A large per cent of the corn in Cascade county was injured to such an extent by the heavy frosts -, _ 00r c0n * pretty prewy generally over Montana a mzf- ' «cient supply of seed will be avail able from other sections of the state that have been grown« «nd devel . ._. . n. from adapted varieties . " y " n ' «tension workers have been pushing the practice of seiet- earfr and a suffice*. nasswn for a two year seeding. The ***** »»w before pries* soar is a «twd time for com growers to se tbefr xtd for wit y«ir. Anil tede seed «te, old be listed at the of free or# the County Agent. year. • I Corn growers did not select « good supply of seed ear. before the £Tst< came, consequently there ia conaid enable danger of a serious reduction in the acreage of corn to be planted nevt »» 4 «. .. . T. ... next spring, or the planting of high priced seed not adapted to ditkm. the latter part of September that the supply of good adapted home grown j seed will be scarce next ting read corn w **dom of this practice is clearly pointod out tius year, (Cqu n page 41 , ■ Mr. and Mrs. Peter Blais of Belt and Conrad V. Anderson of Roy, Mon J Una were married last week Wednes day noon at Lewistown, Montana. Florence Blais, a sister of the bride and Mr. Darrod of Roy were the at tendants, Anderson-Blais Mias Engeline Blais, dai«hter of Mrs. Anderson is a grad uate from the Normal Training de pertinent of the Belt Valley High School and has taught successfully Mr. Anderson is a for three years, prominent and successful rancher of .. .... . . •. *** WlH ** * h ° me to fn<mda in Roy. The program of the Pythian trea-l Roy. After a brief honeymoon trip PYTHIAN GETS NEWEST SHOW tre has been slightly changed for next week due to the Election night coming on, Tuesday. There will be four show* instead of three. "Blar ney" plays on Sunday and Monday, "The Unknown Soldier" on Tuesday and Wednesday and another program has been booked for Thursday and Friday and one for Saturday only. The last two shows will be adver tised in next week's Times. The shows advertised in this issue are of a wide variety, starting with hilarious farce comedy Friday and Saturday. Douglas McLean will en tertain in a picture called "That'« This is a Paramount My Baby." been received on it as a laugh pro duc er. After the first show on Sat urday night the Radiola will be given away from the stage as advertised. Sunday and Monday show is an Irish picture with Rene Adore play ing the lead. The feature of the pic ture is the old time prize fight in which the fighters "go it" bare. . . . _ 8 * me Next is "The Unknown Soldier.",™«. showing on Tuesday and Wednesday. fight too. With this there* will be shown a scenic short subject "Arizona Grand Canyon. ! B * 8 one 01 the a««* beat war 1 pictur< * made this year ond in some towM haa been *« * 8 P«-ial at * dvmnced price8 In the cast is Henry B - Walthol «nd Marguerite De La " 0tt * < T le H U " k "° WI ' 1 M I^ _Tw m ' ' 1 ** i Confirmation Class I ■ [ The Eight Reverend M. C. Lenihan D.D. Bishop of Great Falls, assisted by Monaignor O'Brian V. G. P. A. L L. D. f the Rev. Fr. Spekmeir and th* Rev. M. McHugh, confirmed the following class at St. Mark's Church Sunday 1 ast. Calorie, Margaret Teresa Carr, Mil dred Teres. Colgan, Geneveive Clem Rosalie Frances en tine Bodner, Madeline Rosemary Spogen, Jane Frances Boyle, Agnes Cecelia Colgan, Josephine Genevieve! Urich, Pauline Amelia Mam, Mary »«ben Klimas, Thomas Miclmel Lsvendowrti. Rudolph Arthur GUko, _ AlphoB8e JoMph Beaudry, John Anthony Lavendowaky, Matthew Artrnr Urich. Matthew Sylvester : Boyle. Francis Joreph Colgan. Don | d Joseph Atkinson. - WELL KNOWN SHOE MAKER OPENS SHOP - Frank Vertaanik, well known here former years has rented the store room next to Colgan * Meat Market rind if insUllint a complete shoe-repemng machinery H*> I» expert workman and plans fo Ellen Eva Cure. Mary Rose Urich, Cecelia Dorthack. Alice Cecelia Klimas, None Agnes William son - Vernie Elizabeth Uhrin, Eliza- Î both Mary Care, dar. MargariU Lavendowski, Marie Veronica Colgan Pauli"« Louise Zemanick, Anthony Raymond' Gliko, Edward Louis „ . , . „ ' . „„ ^ Florek, John Edward Gliko, diaries Pauline make Belt bis home Canadian Liquor Situation Hon. W. D. Barley of Winnipeg delivered an instructive and in tercet ing address to a lange Beti audience in the Methodist church last Friday, evening. After explaining that only, the four Western Provinces had gone back on Prohibition and that Hie Wet reaction had been stopped by a Dry victory in Ontario two years ago Mr. Bayley described the Manitoba system and from Government docu ment* in his possession showed that it was proving most unsatisfactory, H. T. Ston.g The Manitoba system, which dif fers from those of other Provinces, allows permit holders, permits coat ing $1.00 per annum, to ordoro for delivery to their home# of Liquor ! from the Government stores and beer,for from the bre w e ries . Soon after the system commenced so much liquor was being purchased for boot legging purposes that a limit of IS quarts of hard liquor per week and 48 pints of beer was placed on each purchaser. The wet* claim that crime docreaa ed with the change from prohibition to Government Control so celled, But the records show last year, 1926, to be the third worst in ten years for 1 " oor "®lationa, second in commit merits to jail and first for murder [charges and juvenile delinquency. As to bootlegging the Mayor of Winnipeg declared publicly that con ditions were a thousand times worm than under the Dry Law. The Attorney General explained that the bootleggers had now an easier task in procuring their supplies and they Ibund customers who wanted in places other than their homes, But while presuming to sell only genuine liquor, yet fake whiskey labela were still being printed and illicit stills as plentiful as ever. The beer situation was very bad. Although the votes* polled two to j . * ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MURDER INNOCENT CONRAD FARMHAND . . .... . _ . eris jury, sitting at Browning is clipped from the Great Falls Leader Saturday last. A coroners jury sitting at Brown on the Blackfeet *** the death °f °™ ar oilman. 22, killed Thursday night about 11 o'clock by prohibition officer. on the Blackfeet reservation, found that Dillman "came to his death by a revolver shot in the back of the head, said shot being fired either by Louie Munroe or Boetcher," the former an Indian po lireman and the latter the white law enforcement officer of the reeer The following report of the coron A. „ • . „ County Attorney Horace Judron, of Glacier county, formerly of Great Falls, with Coroner M. A. O'Neill, had charge of the inquest. The fore man of the jury was John Brbwn. The bullet which killed Dillman was found in hi* head and was a 32 vation. Warrants were issued for the ar rest of Monro« and Boetcher, neither having been under restraint up to late this afternoon. ... , . ... 20 cahbre - both Boetcher and Monroe shooting such guns and the testimony showing that both officers fired at Dillman. i _ ... . ,, ^ ,nqUM ' dcveloped pract,cally wheel and Elmer Alegree, a young friend, a passenger. The boy* had been visiting at St. Mary's lake and _. .. " ... . '* > ' nm " d « d th ^ £ P J^ h * Jj, !kV A ue testimony was to the effect that ,11 of the officers started firing after the car. one of the bullets lodging in the* back 0 Dillman'* head and killing him liqnor WM towA Th « body of the dead man was taken to the Cot Bank hospital and from there to Browning from where It will be token to Or. rad for burial. Diffm.n is a cousin of Perry I>t!hvian who livei 5 mile from Conrad, and a nephew of An drew Dfltman. He ahd Alegree cam» from Indiana * few months sgo and Ae 8ame 8tory as ori « ina,,y to,d; That lxmie Munro *' °* Sh '* ri,f ' In dian P 01 ' 06 , and Bo*'toher, white law enfor c« me " t °® ,c ® r * were h 01 «* 1 "» ^ 8 Bark r0 ' d . D,v,d * h,ll > cla,rain * th « wer *' Mek >ng a ru "' rnnn * r After severa ca ™ had ***" « Ford roadster with Dillman at the Hie car was searched but no «TAone against a beer and wine proposal | fa 1923, yet within « ftw months of the re-establishment of legal sale of beer to the horned the bars ofi Winnipeg were running full blast, contrary to the law. When the truck throve up to the hotel to deliver the two cases to the proprietor H was an easy matter to slip in many more eases Thus a generous supply for illegal sale was secured. - Ah investigation of a year ago revealed a shortage of 2344 cases of beer in seven depots near the Inter, depot cases during the week out on Sunday morning early 168 cases was sold by the proprietor to himself, obviously national Boundary. One showed legal saler of 22 bootlegging purposes, Asked as to how much of^the beer made in Manitoba last year boolegged the Government of Mart Itota informed the Legislature, 61.69 per cent This figm was arrived at by comparing the 2,600,000 gallons upon which a tax of 26 centa had baen collected with the less than 1,000,000 gallons recorded as legally sold or exported. Thus he showed that in Manitoba the Government and aQ the eittxena participate in profita mad* by illegal sale of beer. On July first this year . the Government finally revoked the brewer's privileges to operate depots. They were ordered to sell their beer thru the Government depots. But the breweries defied the Government and later one of them arrested the Government vender for illegal sale of beer. -, strati on of teaching temperance to the young and made a plea for the »- establishment of temperance ed «cation in the schools, number* were given by Mrs, Arthur j^ewia, Mr. Clark and Misa Hartley. was Vocal *nd instrumental musical _ Conrad. County Attorney Horace Judsun will arrive in Great Fail» tonight to consult with the federal authorities h * re ;« '«J 101 ** C * r * i " " whether the federal or state officers will have charge of the prosecution, it not yet being definitely decided a* ^ whether the particular spot which Dillman was killed was in Glacier Park, Glacier County or Blackfoot reservation, all three join • - - ■ - WET AND DRY CAMPAIGN both were employed on a ranch near mg neu- that point. Voters of eight states, with *n ag gregate population exceeding 80,000 000, will ballot directly on the wet and dry question on November 22 The two largest states in this group, New York and Illinois, will vote on a refcreT1(hlm (itniUr ta intent and almost identical in language. New York question asks: The Should the congress of the United States modify the Vol stead act to enforce the Eight centh amendment so that the same shall not prohibit the man ufacture, sale, transportation and exportation of beverages which are not in fact intoxicating as determined in accordance with the law* of the respective state*. Two other state* have given their electors an opportunity to express their opinion on the wet and dry question by means of a referendum one of them. Wisconsin, would mem orialize congress to authorize the manufacture and sale of 2.75 beer, whi,e Nevada aim# 8t . haTin * con ' « Te88 rem ™ on " «>"ftut.onal ™ -™* nd the E.ghteenth amend me n t . ^ ^ four remaining states !Î California. Missouri and Montana, wil] ttocid * on election day whether . , , . ho ^ ev * r ' not be «K*~tlv* ** lon ^ **, h W,t> ! '"T 8 * .?■ _.- A -_j f? . lÄ f° U e •"» ^puW:c«ns -jlry 0 ** n "' ** * ° n <Con, on last page.» ' * their state dry enforcement acts shall be repealed, while Colored? voters are asked to determine if the state constitution shall be amended to , - permit the manufacture and sale intoxicating liquors under a system, the proposed amendment, COVERNOR ERICKSON PLEASES AUDIENCE WITH : HIS FAIRNESS _ # RH (Joloffd .T /iflStfcls j year AU those present were uniform their praises of the entertainment The singing was excellent, the mirth-provoking «nd des n. This company will show again in Belt on November 9th under the auspices of the High School Students' organisation. We venture to predict that no show of equal merit will be seen in Belt for another year, be cause the staging requires so much room that no hall in the city out side the Auditorium can accommo date it Beck and Walker's Colored Min strels gave a show before a small audience in the Auditorium one ago. was posed to belong in Lewistown and were on their way to Great Falls for CAR WRECKS ON GRAVEL ROAD Last Thursday forenoon, a Studs baker car with California top and bearing lieense number 10866 left the road ne«» J. L. Randall's place in Armington and turned completely over. The occupants; an alderly man, « young lady and three children were all somewhat bruised and shaken up. Dr. Graybaal states that the cheek of one of the boys was badly cut The party were in a hurry to reach the train and did not wait long enough to give their names but were sup a visit The cause of the accident wS* the A Bç , t orcheatra haa ^ or . ^ hM ^ f#r weeks. The member, of the orch „ tra , re Mpt * who w| „ id , . t the u Alice Beaudry violinist • Arthur Back and ' ^ drum> km of a tire which came off with the flm. The car gives evidence of hav ing done a nose dive, the fenders on one side are demolished and much glass in the top is broken. It may be seen at Browning's garage. ORCHESTRA NOW READY FOR BUSINESS For the second time this season the Belt team and the Great Fall* Seconds played to a tla. This game was a preliminary to the Palls-Minot game and wa* played before a crowd of 6020 people. This orchestra is prepared to fur nish music for dances and social en tertainments. As yet they have a dopted no other name than the Belt orchestra. yt Can't Lick 'Em Coach McDonald thinks our boy* had stage fright, playing before a crowd of 6000 when ordinarily they play before a crowd of 60. Neither side scored although Belt within los t the ball once when j Dover W ckson . ®- Johnson Johnson striking distance in the first quarter, and Great Falls was held for downs on Belt's 3 yard line In the closing period. Considering the fact that the Belt team was outweighed on an average of flftesn pounds to ths man and included s bunch of cripples It deserves commendation. A game had been scheduled for, October 30th which was cancelled last week but Coach MacDonald at this writing was endeavoring to fill this date. On November 6th the boys play a return date with Stanford. The personal of the opposing teams Seconds was: Belt ' Trussel Coppage Conrad Hamilton Mantis Miller Wendt Wright Stephenson Le Jewel H .Gosaack qCody P^ff'Lnnthsridi p ord .1* c rg Snyder French rt re qb Iht rhh fb i Election of Mayor Harry Mitchell of Great Palls, demo uwtfa^ candidate for congress, was urged by" Governor J. E. Erickson in an ad> ; dress at the armory here Friday j night Mayor Mitchell, he said, ia (the best fitted man eastern Montuua ha* to send to Washington to get behind a constructive program of legislation that is aimed to put ag riculture on a parity with other in dustrie*. ( governor here. Sitting at the plat form with the chief executive were A crowd of 500 persons greeted the the democratic legislative and coun ty candidates. State Senator Porter of Big Sandy, candidate for re election, presided as chairman. Music was furnished by the Fort Benton orchestra. The meeting marked by the cordial reception give» the governor's address. Congress Must Help The nation is confronted with the problem of rehabilitating agriculture. Governor Erickson said. A reason able amount of legislative co-opera tion must be given by congress and Montana should have the men whs will work for such legislation regard less of partisanship. The governor spoke briefly on the manner in which the state's indebt edness had been reduced in the last two yean, and of the task accomp lished by the economy of administra tion in overcoming the debt incurred by the state during the yean of ad versity following the war. Gives Credit to Opposition No derogatory remarks were made by the governor against the opposing party or its candidates. Be was most liberal in giving credit to those of the opposition who had hetpad hi ™ in hU f" 0 ™» W*" made a plea for the people to ami to Helena.„January legislate«» who will with him in far ther reducing the state's debt. Governor Erickson was a guest ad John T. Phelan while here. Ha left after his address for Glasgow where he will speak Saturday night. A HOE TURNS RISER LOOSE The indictment against Michael Riser, charging him with resisting and with assaulting an internal reve nue officer, there being two separate counts, was dismissed in the federal , ,, court at Geest Falls, Friday by Judge C. N. Pray aa stated In the dispatches but the grounds for the action are not given fully. In the ftrst count of the indictment, Riser wa* charged with resisting E. E. Koehler, an internal revenue officer. This indictment was challenged by the defence on the ground that the record in the murder case, tried here, showed that the state, elected to charge Riser resisting and assaulting Koehler as a federal prohibition officer, A* a prohibition officer, the do fence contended, the right of search search warrant could be .without a exercised, but aa an internal revenue officer, Koehler had no right to under take a saarch of a residence under an y circumstances. tained by the court, the indictment ! This was sns dismissed and the sureties exoner atod i ^b* federal attorneys : ün,atod **** « appeal from the rul,n K ™**bt be taken, but this is not b>oked for, though a new indictment n,Ry be asked have in MANCHESTERS MOVE ONTO LINE OF TRAFFIC -pj, e Manchesters found themselves in th(>jr ff>rn)cr gtolT building just beyond the natural itinerary of tte ordirury „hopper because of the fact that there was no crosswalk from the Morrow garage to their store. To remedy the situation they hav», rented the store building formerly occupied by E. H. Sundertneicy and have moved their stock of good* there. They hope to have -yervtMng ■ . ■ranged for their grand opening on Saturday, when each lady visitor I» to be presented with « favor. They will continue to rarey mâg MrtWM and pap««, confectionery o* «H hindi, s'ap! «rrocjrkw. baknrp goods, fruits and vegetable«.