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ST A1E OPE RA TION OF COAL MINFS GREAT VICTORY (Continued from Page' One) mines it took over. Normal pro duction was assured within a day or two. - On Saturday Governor Fra zier announced the plan of state operation as follows: "The primary object of state. operation is to get the coal to the people of the state," said Governor Frazier. "I feel that everyone is willing to continue to pay the present prices for, a few days, until we learn what it actually costs us to produce the coal. No Profit Wanted In the operation by the state neither the state nor the mine operatdrs are to make any pro fit. Royalties of from IQ to 25 cents per ton will be paid the owners for coal takel from their mines. The price to the deal ers will be governed by the ac tual cost of mining the coal, plus this royalty and whatever expense the state coal adminis tration incurs in operating the mines. I anticipate there will be a reduction in retail prices in 1 some localities. No cut will be I made, however, until we have I absolute figures on the cost of production." ANTON JOHNSON NOT GUILTY Scobey Movie Man Acquitted of Statutory Charge By Jury Last Saturday. Anton Johnson, the Scobey movie man who was arrested last spring - on a statutory chargei the Victim being his beautiful little seven year old daughter, was acquitted by a jury m the district court last Friday evening, November 14th. This case was very sensa tional, andt fhe circumstances very peculiar. However, there seemed to have been sufficient doubt as to justify the jury in the verdict rendered. The whole case, practically, depended upon the evidence of the little seven year old daugh ter, who testified very reluct antly and never seemed very sure of herself. The main witness for the states, Mrs. Foss, who was keep j' g house for Johnson at the time the crime is alleged to have occurred, seems to have eluded the officers and did not put in an appearance in Plenty wood until after the trial. Sheriff Bennett went to Sco- j hey to serve a subpoena on this Mrs. Foss but found that she had gone to Minot, N. D., at < which place he telephoned the I sheriff, but the Dakota sheriff was unable to locate her. Then a Sheriff Bennett went to Minot i himself and found that Mrs. Foss was at Douglas, N. D., vis- a iting relatives and he went to a that town, but there was a bliz zard on and the wires were down and he could not get out into the country and was forced I to leave the subpoena with an I officer at that place for service as soon as possible. The papers j were served but not in time for I Mrs. Foss to get in Plentywood I for the trial. County Attorney Gunther and Assistatn Geo. D. Cudhie I appeared for the state and At- 5 torney Alfred T. Vollum for the a defendant, Anton Johnson. 1 Johnson's wife died last fall l with the influenza and it was 14 after the mother's death that the crime is supposed to have r taken place. It is reported that r Johnson has disposed of all of his holdings in this country and c will return to Sweden, taking a the little girls back with him, where he will leave them with r relatives. t MURDER CHARGE FILED AGAINST JOE BURSHIA Poplar Standard: On a com plaint. made by the county at torne y' office a charge of first degree murder was filed against " Joe Burshia, of this city, on Wednesday of this week at Mondak. Burshia is charged with the murder of Art Wil liams-in this city on the -even ing October 31. He was tak en bf ore Justice of the Peace Ch Arrivee, at Mondak, for a .pr zary hearing and re ma to the custody of the she r. Si the shooting Burshia has f confined in the co y jail Mondak. ScOBEY H PEACE DIS1JRBEf (Continued from Page One) Whereupon the Mr. Johnso had the follower of the lowly S Nazarene arrested and brought ci a before a magistrate, in the per- A son of Judge Olson. f( His R nor set the hearing for last )ondaj and the pastor re- pi e turned to his flock at Scobey for 0l Sabbath services and returned ti a: to the county seat on Monday w D morning train when he ap- h; t peared before the magistrate to t and asked for a continuance un 3 til next Monday, Nov. 24th, in 1 order to have time to prepare V t for trial. The case promises to be very interesting. COURT MAKES 18 NEW CifiZENS m pe ta Residents From All Over Coun- in ty Become Subjects of Uncle in Sam. Following are the list. of 18 bl( residents of Sheridan county co who were made citizens of the ed United States and swore allegi- me ance to the Stars and Stripes cri and made oath to support the m€ Constitution of this realm, in fa( Judge Comer's court this week: hii William Ranson Lounsbury, chi Dooley; Charles Brumpton, ci Plentywood; Andress Bakken, Ju Antelope; Ingeborg Paulsrud, D. Westby; Reider Leer, Reserve; in' Peter Daniel Nyquist, Outlook; n Julius Tessman, Poplar; Mykala in Thochy, Julian; Julius Jacob me Beng, Whitetail; George Em- me manuel La Combe, Whitetail; dea Carl Odegard, Whitetail; Idwal efo Jones, Whitetail; " John Heier, out Scobey; Olaf Pedersen, Scobey; Au Alphus Stephen Rubin, White- Au tail; Otto Emil Andersen, Me Whitetail; Nils Bjorko, Scobey; he Joseph Gruber, Redstone. he ner MONTANA WEEKLY t INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Nov. 1O.---Butte-Jibi proper , ty ready to ship. Vein opened f up 1900 feet. Helena-State land sales for - past year bring 2 1-2 million E dollars-average of $15.71 per acre. Valier-Both Great Northern - and Milwaukee railroads may extend branches. in Valier coun ty. Kinsey-Mackey Eberle Land b and Stock company incorpor - ated. Capitalized at $60,000. Billings - Gasoline making plant with daily output of 2,400 gallons to be erected here. Great Falls-Bread prices in creased from 2 1-2 to 3 cen per loaf. c Helena-New company buys electric block for $80,000, also improved residence property. Lima-New Security Nation al Bank building to be erected at once. Poplar-Prospects for oil and gas favorable. Butte has new song shop. Most up to date west of New York City. Ore carrying silver as high as 100 ounces to the ton has just been uncovered in the Silver Belt mine in the Neihart dis trict in Montana.. North Butte Mining company has made a strike in its East Side property. Rich sulphide and native copper have been cut in the south cross-cut from the Sarsfield shaft on the 900 foot level. 4 Pompeys Pillar-Newton rail road siding to be extended one mile. y Wolf Point-Flax mill begins operations. Stock food to be manufactured as by-product. Montana plans network of roads to connect all important towns for next year. Whitefish to have new school. Work to be rushed. Butte-New building for ] State school of Mines going up. ] Hardin-60 blocks new pay ing proposed. Libby-New $100,000 bridge I to be built over Kootenai river. I Helena - Contract awarded 1 for construction of mosque by t Algeria Temple of the Shrine.. Despite three years drouth and calamity stories, Montana I land and land values are rapidly I soaring in public estimation and I the greatest agricultural activi- I ty in bistor~y of state is presaged I 'for next year." Choteu-%'JIigh Shool going up. Billings to have big canuoery with capacity of 60,000 ~anis b ~1f1 GINING (Coatinued fe.f iaqe One) n The case now on trial is the Y State vs. W. J. Tobhi, for rall t cious destruction of property; Alfred T. Vollum for the de fense, case before the jury. r The criminal calendar will ;. probably occupy the attention r of the court all of next week, al l though several of those charred r with.gambling and blind pigging have pleaded guilty and have e taken stiff fines. VICTIM OF MOBBERS ACCUSFS MINISTER John Meints of Sioux Falls, S. D., Asks $100,000 Damages. Mankato, Minn.-"They took me out on the prairie and strip ped my clothes off. Then they tarred and feathered me. Stand ing there in the moonlight, look ing into the muzzle of a shot gun, I felt the sting of a lash on my naked back. I counted the blows-one, two, three, four. I could stand it no longer; I turn ed to the man who was flogging me. 'For God's sake, don't' I cried. I stopped. The man's mask had slipped down on his face and I was able to recognize him. He was Rev. H. W. Bed ford, pastor of the Methodist church in Luverne." That was the testimony of John Meints of Sioux Falls, S. D., formerly of Luverne, Minn., in United States district court in Mankato last week. Meints is suing 32 prominent business men of Luverne for $100,000 ' damages in consequence of his deportation into South Dakota, followed by a tar-and-feather outrage on the interstate line August 19,1918. The dramatic moment in Meints' testimony came after he had told how a mob of 100 persons had taken him into an automobile for deportation. cuLawi umitc ju- uepOrraUlon. Seized by "Bandits" At a remote point on the South Dakota line, Meints says his didnapers were "held up" by four armed masked men. He was taken from- the automobile by the "bandits," whom he soon recognized as Luverne business men, and tarred and feathered. Previously, Meints had been deported into Iowa, after it was found -that .h had cxmtributed $50 to aid ini the establishment of the Rock County Leader, a weekly newspaper organized by the farmers to support Nonpar tisan league candidates in the 1918 primary and generla elec tion. The second Meints outrage brought to a climax the persecu tion of Nonpartisan league farmers under thc cloak of loy alty in Rock county. The week ly newspaper had been nailed up and the editor forced to flee from the state. Over a dozen Nonparisan league farmers were forced to sign statements repudiating the Nonpartisan league as a disloyal organization with the alternative of being deported from the state. Almost without exception the defendants testified that they had deported Meints for the purpose of "protecting" him from some mythical mob. They denied any knowledge of the tar-and-feather party. Not one of the defendants said he had notified the sheriff or other police authorities. James Horne, monument heal er of Luverne, made the adis sion, however, that all "prtec tive" activities ceased in Rock county as soon as two agents of the United States depart ment of justice appeared ih Lu verne to conduct an investiga tion. COMERTOWN FARMER SHIPS TO EQUITY H. R. Phinney of Comertown arrived home last Monday from the So. St .Paul market where he had disposed of a mixed car load of stock for himself and neighbors. Mr. Phinney relates he sold his stock through the'- Equity Exchange and assures us that he was more than satisfied with' the treatment he received from them. All his hogs averaing 100 lbs. or over ir d for $14.80, top price being $14.85. CYearlingr heifers weighinig 800 lbs. brought 9c or $32.40. An ox and Holstein steer breaght 10c. All Eaceommodations weA first 1Wqfpt Ad in the Pre.ecors Nw brds alsI MTAXQUES TION SUIT (Continued from -Page One) 7 per cent gives value of $24, 638,177. Thi&in not included. (Note-Montana Power eo pany owns all -f stock of Great Falls Power company, over one half of bonds issued by Great Falls Power cdnpany, all stock of Thompson Falls Power com pany and all of bonds of Thomp sonr Falls Power company.) Attorney General Ford, who also is a member of the state board of equalization, protest ed against assessing the power company at less than half the value of their property as shown by their own reports. The board laughed at him. But Ford took the matter ±n to the courts and the supreme court in a decision given out last Friday ordered the state board of equalization to show cause why the assessments of the power company should not be doubled. If the assessments are raised on the power company, it will i means about $450,000 a year to the state, and will show that in the past years they have es- j caped several millions in taxes. i "BROTHER VAN'S" CONDITION SERIOUS Wolf Point Herald: Rev. R. I. Stone this week received news regarding the condition of Rev. Van Orsdel, who a few weeks ago suffered a stroke of apo plexy. "Brother Van," as he is generally known, is at present at a hospital at Great Falls. News of his condition is con tained in a letter from Rev. J. A. Martin, of Great Falls which in part reads as follows: "Your letter just received rel ative to the health of Brother Van. I have just come from his room and he may be very slight ly improved. - His mind is quite clear about some things but not in others. He knows his old 'time friends and is so glad to hear from them and to see them just for a few minutes, however. "I don't see how he will ever beiip again, although we can hever tell. They had him up in a chair yesterday for forty min ites. Of course he is perfectly helpless. Has to have help in eevry move that he makes. It is really a pitiable thing to see him. He has failed a great deal." The farmer who com Iwin of -monopoly rule and then gives his support to papers maintain ing this autocracy might be likened to a mule kicking him self to death. But then a mule wouldn't do any such thing. THE UNIVERSAL CAR The Ford car can well be called the "peoples ca," i ue L * are more than 3,000,000 of them in daily operation. Th is aboLL futoone to the nearest follower ýn the noc ºrhdszy 1Cvould not so if the Ford car had not or oxcr 7-aý7ý prover .kL ; superiority in service, in durability, nd in the J0 V c0 and maintenance; this would not be so if t easy to understand, so simple in construction L e e body can safely drive it. It doubles the value of time, and is evquick' nece t i c ^~ ~ ~e ..disth quick:, convenie.; canr~f:r ý {i and economical method cf transpctatio Wes We have the full lE.', Tourin '' C'- Rn about, Ceotx ýL a, We assure you the beyt posibke i rccaf work with t 1 Parts. "T' r. r iakFihtegcL:1 MONTANA MOTOR CO Plentywood, Montana Ili . PACTSESION ENDS r (Continued from Page One) ber, North Dakota, voted with the democrats in its support. Republican Leader Lodge de clared today's voting constitut ed final decision on the peace 'treity unless President Wilson i r carcmvented the senate rules 4 by withdrawing it and then I sutnbmitting it again to the sen t ate. In other quarters there I was some difference of opinion ` but the general sentiment seem- I ed to be that there w;as only al' slender chance that the treaty c would come up at the beginning c of the next session of congress, beginning next month. r The effect of the senate's failure t© ratify the treaty will I be the continuation of various war-time laws and regulations at least until the new session opens. Among these is the t war-time prohibition act. c To Be Reintroduced c The resolution presented to- o night to declare a state of peace P will come up at the beginning v of the new session and is expect- t] ed to start another stubborn fight. The administration is understood to be opposed to such a method of legally ending the war and in the background is a constitutional question as to whether congress can do so by a resolution not requiring the President's signature. n It - was suggested tonight si among democratic senators that nm President Wilson might be ask ed during the recess to feel out P1 the other powers as to their at- et titude on reservations with the d{ idea of bringing the treaty to C some sort of a ratification after congress re-assembles. ec pt JIM PURVES FARM SOLD -- C TO LAKE PRESTON PARTY d( _____th Thursday afternoon, Nov. 13, W. G. Reiter, Froid real estate be dealer, sold the Jim Purves half m) section farm just at the edge of m; the town of Froid to Hans m4 Christofferson of Lake Preston, S. D., for a consideration of is $8,000. Mr. (Christofferson is is a brother of Mrs. Jens Jacobsen de of this place and will move here Sh with his family in the early b spring. Aside from his new pa purchase Mr. Christofferson ke owns another half section a short distance from Froid. Grand View Hotel - - - PHILLIP BOURASSA, Proprietor - - -' Rooms with bath $1.50 Rooms with Water $1. New Sanpie rooms in connection. Electric Lighted. Steam Heated Plentywood, e of Orpheun Montana CLERKIOF CHAPMAN Clerk of the Distric Albept Chapman rct pointed to succeed eeentl resigned, has appo ird deputies, Harry Jo Lee Jolly. ohuon The prediction that p Paske w ould be the d ClerV Diýst1e ý made on ;set rt of the Cap el at the t did not come trua ni changed his mind it seems When the appoetmient made, Pete fIlge one o applicants of pledged himsef, faelle get along it one depuy' o Mr. Tange n nd fot aputy The extra urinec poi ty, who has a meal tcet cause the law alo itice cause he is necessar.y, l salary of ci 7.5 e or $1650 for the &earTe m k payers have lots of money this. never miss a litte it COUNTY COMS SIONERS IN SFSSIM The County Commissioner met in adjourned regular ees sion Thursday, all of the oon. rmissioners being presento Deferred business from the previous meeting vas tran e ed and the appointmeiit of two deputies in th 3 office of Clerk of Ccnrt was confirned.p Commisisoner Tyler protest. ed the appointmmnt of two de. puties in the office of Clerk of Court, contending that only e deputy was needed to transact the business in Sheridan coup. ty, but the majority of the board with their usual disre gard for expense appointed tNo men to do the work that one man can easily do. Uplifting the savage, or as it is sometimes ca+ed in diplomat. ic circles, the white man's bur. den, is interpreted by Bernad Shaw, the English humorist, to be teaching the savage to wear pants so that he will have poe. kets we can pick. The Producers News-$2 a year.