WEATHER FORECAST
BUTTE—Tonight : Uttle change.
Tomorrow: Not so cold.
Wi)t iButte Batlp $ost.
WEATHER FORECAST
MONTANA —Fair tonight and Friday;
warmer tonight and south and extreme
north went portion w Friday. _
VOL. 5. NO. 16.
BUTTE MONTANA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 18. 1917
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ILIIIII FORCE
SIN WILL BE
RELIEVED FROM
. BORDER DUTIES
epoi'i
M ■ Bin
War
»s Columbus, N.
'q Official at
iftment.
lanning withdrawal
0F PE RSHING'S TROOPS
ovement of the Regulars and
Militia May Be Made Sim
ultaneously.
Columbus, N. M., Jan. 18.—It
as unofficially reported here to
ay the militia will be released
rom border service within five
ays Officials were non-commit
il on the rumor.
Washington, Jan. 18.—It was re
orted in official circles late today
hat an order withdrawing the
uardsmen from the border
to be issued at the war de
stinent.
No official Information could be ob
alned and It I« understood that com
Itin details for the withdrawal of
Pershing command from Mexican
-II will be arranged before the an
,-ment Is made that the militia
s are to leave t|io border.
ACCURATE INFORMATION
OF SITUATION ACROSS
BORDER HARD TO GET
k'.t'liington, Jan. 18. — Inadequate
en contradictory report» con
! i Villa's operations in Mexico
h* wildered administration offi
ii I it is believed resulted in the
,n ordering the withdrawal of
il Pershing's forces. One report
l nt the state department today
iie «'arranza forces had dispersed
jth Villa hands in -the Parral district,
hor said Villa has begun an at
-1 Chihuahua City. Both reports
im state department agent»,
ar department was without
ial reports from General Fun
ho completed yesterday an in
n of the punitive expedition,
dispatches that quoted him as
ihat no raids on the American
appeared probable and that in
■•nt of the withdrawal of General
thing's forces there would be avail
1 sufficient regular troops to fore
st'< I my hostile movement» from
were taken as an indication
h«' general might renew his rec
i c>rn r • .lation that the troops be
■'ht out of Mexico.
I rials
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MUCH WANTED OUTLAW
IS IN MONTEREY PRISON
!'•: " vusville, Tex., Jan. 18.—Luis De
jin U"'-;«, leader in the lower valley
;1»«< raids in 1916 and wanted In the
f filt I States, is under arrest in the
nterey prison, according to Mexican
- M ! «pers reaching here today.
' La Rosa nnd half a dozen other
ftTm - men and civi.ians are charged
" ! lotting to turn Monterey over to
°sed I clicista force, the paper»
°w weeks
j reported to lia >
ego De La Rosa
o been executed.
WOULD CHINEE NAME
OF NEW POSSESSIONS
Plan in Congress to Call Dan
ish West Indies the
Dewey Islands.
'V.ishlngton, Jan. 18.—Change
•«f the Danish West Indies to
A - Dewey Islands" in honor of Ad
1 Dewey was proposed in a Joint
Jtion introduced today by Rep
;*mative Allen of Ohio, who an
•*d that he was submitting let
■* lo Plaident Wilson and to the
gn affairs committees of congress
- the change.
?0ST0FFICE ENLARGEMENT
FOR BUTTE PASSES HOUSE
No Opposition to Appropria
tion of $150,000 for Exten
sion of This City's Federal
Building. Means Relieving of
Acute Situation Locally.
appropriation of $150.000 for en
largement of Butte's postofflee build
ing is nearer a reality than ever be
, re as a result of passage by the
house of representatives of the item
of the omnibus bill providing for the
appropriation. This means that bo far
the house is concerned the appro
1'itation Is "out of the woods" and It
r goes up %e the senate and the
CRUISER FLEET
SWEEPS THE SEI
TD CET RUDERS
German Destroyer and One of
Her Prizes Said to Be
Still at Large.
CAPTURED SHIPS ARE NOW
BELIEVED TO EXCEED 15
Steamship Circles Concerned
Over Report That Raider is
Working Northward.
Nsw York, J«n. 18.—With ths posai*
bility that the Gorman sea raider,
which tank or captured from 15 to
score of allied ships, is still contini
ing her depredatione, steamship owi
srs and marine underwriters were in
• etate of nervous tension today. The
losses in ships and cargoes thus far
represent from $15,000,000 to $20,000,
000. A cordon of British cruisers, rs*
ported to number 16, ie believed to be
sweeping the southern teas in searoh
of the raider which, according to one
report, may be the auxiliary cruiser
Vinete; according to another, the
cruieer Moewe, the same sea rover
which played havoo.with allied ship
ping about a year ago.
Steamship circles were especially
concerned today over a wireless warn
ing that the German raider was work
ing northward to more fruitful lanes
of travel. The possibility that the
raider may have armed and manned
one or more of her prizes and dis
patched them also on commerce prey
ing missions was another source
anxiety. one report was that
British steamer St. Theodore was thus
transformed.
News of the fate of this veAsel and
of the Yarrowdale, reported to hav
on board some of tlie crews of other
captured vessels, was still lacking to
day.
The Swedish steamships Consul
Olsson nnd Consul Confitzon, from
Galveston, Texas, Nov. 11 and 18, for
Havre, reported yesterday as possible
victims of a German raider, hove al
ready arrived at their destination.
Word of their arrival at Havre was
received today by C. M. Weld & Co.,
shippers of the cargo of cotton on
board the two ships.
BELIEF IS RUSSIA'S
He is the Fourth to Hold That
Portfolio Since Outbreak
of the War.
London, Jan. 18.—Gen. M. A. Beliae«
ha« been appointed minister of war in
the place of General Chouvaieff. who
has been made a member of the coun
cil of the empire, according to a Pet
rograd dispatch to Reuter's. General
Beliaeff was formerly assistant minis
ter of war and chief of the general
staff.
Gen M. A. Beliaeff is 51 years old.
He was educated In the classical
schools of Petrograd and received his
military Instruction In the military
school, from which he was graduated
with high honors. During the Russo
Japanese war General Beliaeff was
chief of staff of the first Manchurian
arms and acting chief of staff of the
commander-in-chief. For his services
in the war he received a number of
special distinctions in addition to the
regular military decorations.
General Beliaeff is the fourth min
ister of war Russia has had since the
outbreak of the war.
BRITAIN TO ISSUE IN INDU
IN UNLIMITED WIR LOIN
I,ondon, Jan. 18.—The India office
announces that the government has
arranged to issue a war loan of un
limited amount in India. The entire
proceeds will be handed to the Brit
ish government for war purposes. _
president. No attack was made on
the Butte appropriation either in the
house or in the committee which
recommended It.
News of success of the appropria
tion In the house brought joy to Post
master Goodwin and local postoffice
employes, for lack of floor space In
the postofttce during the past year has
reached an acute stage.
If the appropriation is passed by the
senate and approved by the president
It will mean that work on an addition
to the federal building which will In
crease It just 60 per cent in sise can
be started probably during the com
ing eummer. Tentative plans of an
architect, who cam e to Butte to make
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Burleson Known As Wilsons Personal Messenger
Joins Leak Committee Democrats in Conference
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NORTHWESTERN TRUSTEE OPTIONS
DISTRIBUTED WITH LAVISH HAND
PROFLIGACY AND EXTRAVAGANCE
BRING HIGH COST OF LIVING, IS THE
DECLARATION OF SEN. M'CUMBER
Washington, Jan. 18.—Profligacy and extravagance of the
American people in pursuing pleasure were condemned in the senate
today by Senator McCumber of North Dakota in opposing proposals
for an embargo on food products. The high cost of living, he said,
was largely due to American extravagance, citing figures to show
that Americans spend thirteen billion dollars annually for liquor,
tobacco, automobiles and "other amusements."
"This revelry in extravagant habits," he said, "this unquench
able demand for amusements, for continuous mental intoxicants, is
under-mining the sturdiness of our younger generation. The Amer
ican people seem obsessed with the idea that the main thing in life
is amusement, play, entertainment."
An embargo upon food, in view of present prices of farm labor
and articles used on the farm, in addition to land values would be
most unjust and class descrimination, he declared.
VALUE OF THE NATION'S
CROP PRODUCTION REACHES
A TOTAL OF $13 ,449,000,000
This Exceeds by $2,674,000,000 the 1915 Output. Produc
tion of 1916 Was Smaller. But Prices Were Higher. Four
of Last Year's Crops Exceeded a Billion Dollars Each in
Value. Animal Products Aggregated Over Four Billions.
Washington, Jan. 18.—American farm products attained a gross
value of $13,449,000,000 in 1916, making that year the greatest in point
of value of any in the nation's existence. That estimate of the year's
gross value of farm crops and animal products, announced today by the
department of agriculture, exceeds by $2,674,000,000 the total of 1915
the previous record and by more than three and a half billion dollars
the value in 1914. Crop production for the year was comparatively
low and did not reach record figures except in a few minor instances,
but high prices sent total values up.__
Crops were valued at $9,111,000,000'
and animal products at $4.338.000.000.
The crop value exceeded that of 1915
by $2,204,000,000 and of 1914 by $2,
299,000,000. Crops alone in 1916 were
worth more than crops and animal
products combined In any year prior
to 1912.
Four crops in 1916 each exceeded a
billion dollars in value. The corn
product Is put at $2,296.000.000: cot
ton, $1,406.000.000: hay, $1.162.000.000;
wheat, $1,026,000.000. Other crops that
exceeded $100,000.000 were oats, $656.
000.000; potatoes. $417,000,000; wood
lot products, $221,000.000; apples.
$186,000,000; tobacco, $169,000.000;
barley. $160.000.000.
The level of prices paid to producers
for the principal crops on Dec. 1. 1916,
was about 55.9 per c»nf higher than
a year previous: 52.9 i»er cent higher
than two years before and 52.8 per
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GERARD OFFERED HIS
RESIGNATION TO WILSON
Ambassador Was Ready to
Withdraw if Speech Was
Not Satisfactory.
London, Jan. 18.—United States Am
bassador Gerard offered to resign if
President Wilson disapproved his
speech at the banquet tendered him by
the American Association of Commerce
and Trade, according to a Rotterdam
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company, quoting a Cologne telegram.
A dispatch says the ambassador sent
a special message to Washington with
an explanation of his speech and his
offer of resignation if the explanation j
was unsatisfactory.
PEACE LEAGUE
give up to an international tribunal its
rights to make war.
Amendment Necessary Permit
ting the Tribunal to De
clare War.
Washington, Jan. 18.—Senator Shaf
roth today urged the senate judiciary
committee to approve his resolution
for a constitutional amendment which
would permit negotiations of treaties
engaging the United States to submit
its disputes threatening war to an in
ternational tribunal and engaging to
contribute to the support of any mili
tary establishment necessary to ex
ecute its decrees. Senator Shafroth
explained that it Is necessary to
change the constitution because a
treaty of this kind in effect takes the
power of war making from congress
and places it with the tribunal.
Oscar S. Crosby, one of the origi
nators of the enforced peace idea, said
that while he did not believe the end
of the present war would see the crea
tion of such a tribunal, he believed
eventually it would come.
Mr. Crosby said he believed Pres
ent Wilson's peace note meant that the
chief executive was ready to negoti
ate to engage the United States to
COMPANY'S STOCK
DEALS DESCRIBED
AT HELENA TRIAL
!
Senator Burlingame Refused a
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Gratuitous Otter Ot
$25.000 Option. i
FRARY MADE DIRECTOR
WITHOUT HIS CONSENT
Company Paid Office Rent at
Great Falls With Twenty
Shares of Stock.
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Helena, Jan. 18.—Better progress ir
the trial of the directors of the North
western Trustee company, who are be
fore the federal court on a charge of
using the mail, to defraud, was made,
today than at any time since the trial
started. Among those who testifiec
during the forenoon session were W.
S. Frary of the firm of Burlingame &
Frary of Great Falls; Louis Newman,
a news and lunch room contractor of
Great F-lls who"ts now president of
the Northwestern Trustee company,
and Charles Biddeford of Spokane,
postoffice inspector in charge of the
northwestern states.
Mr. Frary testified that Messrs.
Sidebotham and Wllmot came to his
place of business in Great Falls in the
early part of the year 1913 and wanted
the firm of Burlingame & Frary to be
V..V, ...... L C 'W,7 v t vlu u,
com- fiscal agents far the Ncr baest
ern Trustee company in Great tails.
He said a contract was drawn up ana
signed with that end in view, but noth •
ing was done under the contract.
Tried to Give Them Option.
The witness said he never had any
option on the stock but that an at
tempt was made to grant the firm an
option. He said this caused Senator
Burlingame to want to see the min
utes and the minutes were brought
over from Butte and they found then
that $25,000 worth of stock had been
optioned to Burlingame & Frary. The
witness said that he and his business
partner told Sidebotham then that
they didn't have any stock, they didn't
want any stock, and asked to be re
lieved from anything more to do with
the company.
The witness said he was also elected
a director of the company without his
consent and was so notified in a letter
from Louis E. Haven, to which he
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OBJECT TO GOVERNMENT
AWARD TO FOREIGN FIRM
Illinois Congressman Would
Make Such Contracts
Illegal.
Washington, Jan. 18— Rcpresenta
re Rodenburg of Illinois, a repub
lican, today introduced a resolution
designed to make Illegal the purchase
of government supplies from an) for
govt
eign firm.
"Every consideration of patriotism.''
the resolution says, "requires that
supplies for the army, the navy and
other departments of the federal gov
ernment should be manufactured
the United States by American work
ing men receiving American wages."
The resolution was prompted by
Secretary Daniels' award to a British
ttrm of a contract for armor piercing
projectiles
ALSO APPEARS AT
THE CONFERENCE
Names of Garrison and Unter
meyer Urged as Counsel for
the Committee.
HEARINGS MAY NOW BE
DEFERRED FOR WEEK
Lansing Makes Formal State
ment Denying Lawson
Testimony.
Washington, Jan. 18.—Entrance ot
Postmaster General Burleson and So
licitor General Davie into the confer
ence today of the democratic members
of the rules committee discussing the
future conduct of the inquiry into the
leak of President Wilson's peace note
into Wall street and the selection of
couneel for the committee caused a
stir at the capitol.
Mr. Burleson, who frequently con
veys to congressional leaders personal
messages and the wishes of President
Wilson regarding legislation, appeared
unexpectedly at the committee rooms
shortly after the democrats went into
session. He was immediately taken
into the conference. Shortly afterward
Mr. Davis appeared.
Urge Employment of Garrison.
! Lindley M. Garrison, former secre
; ary ,,f l, 1 , ; ,ame ; s ba ;
ing urged upon the committee to act
us counsel in the inquiry by many
i mcmber » of ,he |iouse
Thomas W
I ington but will
| sired. Doubt v
quarters wheth
Lawson
xpre
left Wash
enever de
r*d in some
hearings would
be resumed before next v
Out-of-town witnesses
Frank A. Vanderlip, Plii
ek.
including
Fisk and
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TWO PERSONS ARE
MYSTERIOUSLY SOOT
Teacher Killed in School, Man
jp HiS Office, Probably by
Oklahoma City,
Nellie M. Dunn,
«hot through the head in the main cor
ridor of the Wheeler school building
here today
Same Assailant.
< >kla., Jan 18.—.
school teacher,
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brother-in-lav
Shortly after Miss Dunn was killed,
Rowland D. Williams, vocal teacher
and prominent in local music circle«,
was shot and killed by an unknown
man in his studio.
Police began working on the theory
that the man who killed Miss Dunn
the slayer of Williams was the
same person, and a search was made
John M rouch , Ml „„ Dunn 's
NO PUBLIC HEARING ON
THE IMMIGRATION BILL
Expectation is That Veto Will
Be Exercised by the
President.
Washington. Jan. 18.—President Wil
son today denied applications for a
public hearing on the Immigration bill
recently passed by congress and it is
expected he will veto the 4*111 because
of its literacy test provision w hich led
him to veto a similar measure pre
viously. An effort will be made to
pass the bill over his veto.
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SELECT SITE FOR $75,000
HOMEOFSALVATIONARMY
New Hall to Be Located Next
to the Old Quarters on East
Rrnariwav TrarKfpr of Proo
Droauwdy. I rdn&ieiin ri U P
Grty tO uG Made This Week,
Plans Still Incomplete.
The new Salvation Army hall for
Butte, estimated to cost al»out $75,000
proposed to bullt during the
H 1
summer, »ill he located on East
Broadway, next door to the old hall,
as announced today. The trans
fer of the property will be made within
a few days. The abstract is now being
completed. Michael Jette is the owner
of the new property and the «leal for
the transfer is being made with Adjt.
D A. Reno, the officer in charge of
the litr.te corps.
The new property includes two small
reside acts. Although the figure of
This
STEPS TAKEN TO
Joint Resolution Meets With
the Approval of the
House.
ELEVEN ATTACHES CUT
OFF HOUSE PAYROLL
adopted th<
committee
New Bills Are Introduced in
the Senate and House
Today.
Special to the Post.
Helena. Jan. 18.—-The house to
day without debate adopted a
joint resolution offered by Har
bert of the republican side and
Mason of the democratic side, set
ting forth that the principle of the
primary system meets with the ap
proval of the legislature, but that
the law is cumbersome. It pro
vides for the appointment of two
democrats and two republicans
from each house to frame a new
bill.
The house' receded from its position
of yesterday in refusing to fire »even
employes, and by a vote of 47 to \
report of the judb-iar
•eeommendlng the dis
harge of 11 employe«.
Lays Down the Law.
The matter whs referred to the com
il days ago, arid it re
louse had no license to
tom and other such at
payroll as clerks. Farm
i table the report was lost.
in It tee
ported
ta» h
The committee on way« ami mean«
reported, recommending that the
license tar bill« 28 and 61 be printed
and referred to the committee. It was
ndof ted without discussion. These are
the Dodd an«l Baxter bills imposing a
tax on the mining industry.
House bill« 41. ?.2 and 51. relating
to highway«, were referred to the joint
»••»mmittee« of the senate and house
on highways.
I dlls were killed on adverse com
mittee reports afollows
Bills Are Killed.
If. B. 69. relating to the foreclosure
of mortgages : H. B 64. f luting to the
■xtension r
>f the
corpo
irate limit« «
!ti-s: I!
B 44.
makii
n<r Saturday
egal half ;
h«dida>
for
public official
r, summer
: H. B
65.
relating to tl
Tomination
Of seb
ool t
rustees; H. I
55. by Rain
ey, to r
egula
ite 1>arbering.
TL B. 31,
relatif
ig to
suits to qui<
an«l H. B. 62. relating to the
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LIEU LAND AGREEMENT
RATIFIED BY SENATE
Montana to Be Compensated
for the Timber Lands
Withdrawn.
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Washington, Jan. 18.—A resolution
ratifying agreements between the gov
ernment and the states of South Da
kota. Idaho and Montana for selection
of public lands for those withdrawn
or forest reserves, on approval by the
retary of the interior, was adopted
>.oda; by the senate.
The agreements referred to pro\ ide
that whenever stale lands ar« with
drawn for forest reserves the state
may make selection of a lihe a reafs
cf I ublic land in lien »hereof The wfll
uve to the stales of S>uth Dakota,
Idaho and Montana a considerable
acreage to compensate fo~ that al
ready withdrawn a s timber ian-i it
was nec. sear y that those ageeen *?nts
b» rat Bed bo*h by the states an*, the
government Montana ratified the
agreements some time ago aril Oov
e»rc r Stewart signed them sevrml
l.»t :
ego.
not divulge?
.n» y »«ic OT Bt
tained a good bargain and they are
wel1 ******* * ilh the location, l
t ,. elr i nten tton to have all the depart -
ment» of the arm) work here under
I 0 '" 1 rwf a " fai as «««'w* »im t>.«
cxcertiof perhaps of the army itors,
w here iecond-hand goods are so <1 at
rest prices to the poor. The *i>re
will in p 11 likelihood not be loetted m
ar ™> >- a ' 1
Definite plans have
made ,„ r th( .
y M C A
not as yet been
r building. With the
Y. M. C. A. and Deaconess hospital
campaigns still going on. the army of
ficers are not inclined to place too
great a burden on the generous people
of the city and therefore a building
campaign will not be launched until
late in the spring. The army in Butte
owns the old building and quarters on
Caledonia street- The new plat of
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