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ALASKAN CITIES BADLY SHAKEN
CHINESE OUAKE KILLS MANY
Total of Deaths in Venezuela Disaster Totals 50 With Thous
Little
ands Roaming the Streets Homeless and Destitute,
Damage Done in Alaska Outside of a Frightened Populace.
Fairbanks, Alaska, Jan. 22.—Resi
dents of Fairbanks and vicinity are
recovering composure after four terri
fying hours in which the city was
shaken by 14 earthquakes. The dam
age was slight.
The shocks began at 12:30 a. m.
yesterday. Quakes were felt in An
chorage, Cordova, Nenana and Cutty,
but were slight in thise places. Dam
age was confined to broken windows
and displaced articles in homes and
• business places.
Peking, Jan. 22.—Many persons
were killed in an earthquake Sunday;
in Suiyan, north of the great wall, ini
Shdnsi province. Buildings collapsed!
and railroad tracks were destroyed.
Advice reaching the international
famine relief said that there was an
earthquake in the same district Janu
ary 13. Two persons were killed at
Saratsi, about 40 miles southwest of
Suiyuan and one in Suiyuan. Several
people were injured when buildings
in Kweihwating 20 miles south of Sui
yan collapsed.
Venezuela Deaths Total 50
Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 22.—Meas
ures for relief of the population of
Cumana, striken by three earthquakes
in the last few days, are in progress.
Nuevo Diario quotes its correspondent
at Cumana as placing the number in
jured at 2,000. The latest estimate of
dead is 50.
AGED ANTELOPE PIO
NEER PASSES AWAY
Settled on Farm Near Antelope
Among First Settlers In That Vi
cinity. Was 85 Years of Age.
Funeral Held Friday In This City.
Mrs. Ann McLaughlin, mother of
Charley and Henry McLaughlin and
Mrs. J. J. Murray died the first of
vthi» week at the Sheridan Memorial
hospital from flu and old age, being
£5 years of age at the time of her
death.
The deceased is one of the early
her loss, two sons Charley and Henry
McLaughlin, and a daughter, Mrs. J.
J. Murray, besides many other rela-1
w 1 i
tives. 1
The funeral was held today (Fri-I
this 1
Marion Potter, 76 Years OM, Dies
As Result of Burns Received When
Gasoline Explodes. Birch Family
pioneers of Sheridan county, being
among the first settlers to homestead
In the Antelope country. Her husband
died several years ago.
Mrs. McLaughlin leaves to mourn
day) at the Catholic church in
city and burial was in the Plentywood
Catholic cemetery.
The bereaved ones have the sympa
thy of their large circle of friends
who held Mrs. McLaughlin and her
family in the highest esteem.
WHTtETAIL MAN
DIES FROM BURNS
Have Narrow Escape.
Marion Potter died Sunday, January
6th, as the result of bums sustained in
a fire that destroyed the farm home
the kitchen of the home early in the
morning, he unknowingly used some
gasoline to kindle a fire and an ex
Whitetail.
Mr. Potter was burned accidentally
when starting a fire in a stove in
plosion resulted. The whole interior
of the room was ablaze with the
gasoline and a raging fire quickly
started. Mr. Birch, his seven child
ren and a hired girl in other parts of
the house were forced to make their
escape through windows. Mr. Birch
suffered slight bums from the explo
sion the fire of which passed through
an open door into the room he occu- j
pied.
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The weather was exceedingly cold
and all the occupants of the house
vere compelled to go into the bam
including Mr. Potter who succeeded in
getting out of the kitchen through the
door, but his bums were intense and
he died that night in Flaxville to
which place he was removed for care,
At the time of the fire Mrs. Birch
was absent from home, visiting with
acquaintances in Flaxville.
Mr. Potter was 76 years old and the
father of several daughters and sons
who reside in the Whitetail and Gros
by (N. D.) vicinities.
SENATE CONFIRMS
WEST APPOINTMENT
Washington, Jan. 22.—Roy O. West
of Chicago was confirmed Monday to
^ secretary of interior by the sen
ate by an overwhelming vote after
three days of discussion of his nom
Nation in secret session.
The vote was repoited as 54 to 27,
but there were many conflicting re
ports on the actual number of ballots
received by West, the range being be
tween 52 and 55. The consensus of
those emerging from the smoke filled
chamber when the doors finally were
opened was that 54 bo 27 was the re
sult. Only a majority was necessary.
Republican independents who op
posed the nominee because of his pre
vious connections with the Samuel In
sull utility interests, made a
determined last minute effort to have
the proceedings, including the roll call
and the committee reports, made pub
lic. But they failed by close votes.
Senators Deneen and Glenn, repub
licans of Illinois, who conducted the
case for West before the senate, clos
ed the argument Monday after Sena
tors Blaine of Wisconsin and Nye of
North Dakota had made another as
sault.
Appointed last August by President
CooKdge to succeed Secretary' Work
when he became chairman of the re
publican national committee, Mr.
West's nomination was sent to the
senate early in December. He appear
ed at opening hearings before the
senate lands committee and received
a vote of 9 to 4 for confirmation.
A number of democrats joined with
the republican majority in the vote
for oonfiration. Senator Deneen re
called the testimony of West before
the lands committee that the nominee
had sold his investments in the Insull
companies at the time he was appoint
ed to the cabinet, He said that over
a period of 26 years West had invest
ed $67,000 in the Insull stocks which
were sold for about $118,000.
West Testifies
Testifying before the lands commit
tee West said that his law business
for the Insull companies had been on
ly of a "casual" nature.
"Senator Norris of Nebraska was one
those leading the spirited,, attack.
Complaint was registered against the
action of W est in participating as a
member of the federal power com
.
13 tbe be3r1 "« °" 3 P etltl °"
b y (he Cumberland Hydro-Electriç
that he had consented to withdraw
from participation in, any cases
ing before his department involving
The final efforts to get the whole
proceedings into the open provoked!
another of the many rows the senate
frequently indulges in over how con
tested executive nominations are to
be considered, but the two-thirds nec
essary to break the practice of secrecy
in the consideration of nominations
was not available.
After the vote on confirmation two
other votes were taken before the
doros were opeend. The first was on'
company, a subsidiary of the Insull
companieSi for a license to develop
power at Cumberland Falls, Ky.
On behalf of West it was recalled
the Insull companies.
Another Row
the roU call on the West nom- j
ination should be made public. This
failed. The second was on a motion
to make public the majority and m
nority reports of the land committee.
Although the hearings before the
committee were public and the testi
mony was published the senate stood
firm against publication of the re
P orts '
BOTH HOUSES
the evils that
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seem to exist, especially
since it was brought out about a week
ago that the refund claims were get
ting out of bounds and were eating
up what appears to be an exhorbitant
percentage of the tax receipts,
Early in the session the house a
dopted a resolution caUing for an in
vestigation of the gasoline tax re
fund situation, but this was inspired
by the claim of lengthy delays in the
adjustment of claims after they
filed with the state board of
missioners. Subsequently it was brot
out that the refunds were piling up
in amounts far in excess of all expec
tations when the law was drafted.
weie
cora
Monday the senate took a hand in
the matter when it adopted a resolu
tion by Senator Sibbert of Petroleum
county that the president appoint a
committee of three to work with the
Upon this commit
year 1928 over those for 1927, having
learned that while the tax paid upon
gasoline in 1927 amounted to $1,604,
270.93 and had increased but little
than $600,000 to a total of $2,
During the year 1927 the first year
the refund clause in conectionn with
house committee in its inquiry of the
refund situation,
tee the president appointed Senators
Schnitzler of Roosevelt,
Sweet Grass and Porter of Chouteau.
Amazed at Incerase
Legislators who have made some
inquiries into the situation are amaz
ed at the apparently unjustified in
crease in the refund claims for the
Higbie of
more
213,396.43 in 1928, the refund claims
had increased from $190,808.71 in 1927
to $403,899.86 in 1928.
the gasoline tax was in effect, 12,000
claims for refunds were filed, but for
1928 the number jumped to 25,243, ac
cording to records in the office of the
state board of equalization.
It is pointed out that whilp the av
erage of the claims filed fôr refund
is approximately $16, several claims
for as little as 30 cents each have been
filed and in one instance a claim was
made for a refund of 6 cents. The
sjate board of equalization has esti
mated that the cost of the state of
the auditing and payment of these
claims averages 53 cents per claim
They take the view that it is un
just to deduct thsi expense from the
tax paid by the man who has used
( be gasoline in his automobile and
that the law should be amended so as
to Provide for a deduction from the
refund claim s of probably 5 per cent]
to carry this expense so that the map
who profits by the refund shall pay
the cost of administering the refund
clause.
See Fraud
Some legislators hold to the viewi
that this great increase in refund de
mands is not justified by conditions
and are of the opinion that many of
the claimants are taking advantage
of the law and are obtaining repay
ment of taxes upon gasoline that has
been used in passenger cars and motor
trucks upon the hikhways.
They hold that while more gasoline
was undoubtedly used in 1928 than
the preceeding year in the increased
number of tractors and combines, that
neither this increase nor the slight in
crease in acreage tilled justifies the
increase of more than $200,000 for
the year.
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made two years ago for the mainten
of various state institutions and
with the probability that requests will
be made upon the legislature for ad
ditional buildings and equipment, the
committees upon appropriations and
revenues of the 21st legislative assem
bly are casting about for a means of
raising the funds necessary to meet
these extra demands.
j In fact it seems not so much a task
of cutting the coat according to the
cloth as it is a task of getting a cloth
large enough for the coat.
It is likely that every possible source
of revenue not already tapped will be
sought out by the legislature to as
$10 POLL TAX TO AID
STATE IS SUGGESTED
Legislative Committees Seek Way of
Meeting Demands for More Money
Rep. Green of Dawson County Pre
sents Plan of General Levy.
hundreds of thousands of dollars those
Helena, Jan. 18.—With bequests for
appropriations exceeding by severa
sist it in solving the financial prob
lems which have already, or which are
yet to be presented.
Per Capita Tax
Among the ideas already advanced
is that of a per capita tax to be im
posed upon every male person and ev
ery unmarried female person over the
age of 21 years, each of whom would
he required to contribute $10 annual
ly for the support of schools, roads,
state government and the poor.
This idea is being promoted by Rep
resentative Henry R. Green of Dawson
county, a member of the committee
on appropriations, who has put the
plan up to the house committee on
revenues and taxation for its ensider
tin.
Representative Green's plan is for a
per capita, or poll tax, of $10 per in
dividual, which would be distributed
as follows: Two dollars each to the
county poor fund and the county road
fund in lieu of the poll taxes already
being collected for such purposes, $4
to be paid into the county general
school fund and $2 to the general
fund of the state.
What amount this would produce in
the aggregate or for any of the
al funds mentioned he has not at
tempted to compute.
sever
Family Head Defined
Under the Green plan this head tax
the heads of
would be imposed qpon
families, as defined by the united
States homestead laws, "every male
person over the age of 21 years and
every unmarried woman over the age
of 21 years.
Taking this definition for the heads
of families, Mr. Green would have
the tax of $10 assessed on March 1 of
each year upon the heads of each
family in the state, to be collected in
the same manner as other taxes on
personal or real property and to be in
addition to such taxes.
It is proposed by Mr. Green that in
the event a measure carrying out the
idea of such a per capita tax shall
be drafted and introduced, it will be
brought out as a committee bill.
So far no plan for the establishing
of a maximum age limit has been put
forth by the father of this proposed
measure, but it is safe to assume that
limit will be fixed to correspond
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some
either with that of the general poor
fund poll tax, which is assessed to
every male inhabitant of the state ov
er the age of 21 and under the age of
60 and to the general road poll tax
applicable to males between 21 and 50
years of age. '
Offices Changed at Courthouse
Carpenters have been busy the past
several days changing the rooms of
the office, which
will now be located in the former
County Agent's office at the court
house and cutting a door in the par
tion which separates the present coun
ty surveyor's office from the County
Superintendent's room. Both rooms
will now be used by County Superin
tendent Singleton to house her office
force.
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Sargon has made me feel like a
for six long years. I am so grateful
for my recovery I just feel like telling
everybody about this wonderful medi
oin®
Mrs. Patridg Was In Such a Highly
Nervous State That She Was Afraid
To Cross the Street.
"Six years ago I had almost a com
plete nervous breakdown and I was so
nervous and in general bad health,
that even the noises of the trolley cars
were almost unbearable to me. ^ I was
afraid to try and cross a street, andi
a car a block away would give me|
nervous tremors.
"I didn't know what a good, restful
night's sleep meant and of course,
mornings I was tired and generally
let down,
"For years I had suffered with in
digestion. It seemed like everything
I ate disagreed with me, and I had
to leave off practically all rich foods
land meats. My appetite .was very
poor, and I didn't get much nourish
ment from what little I ate. After
meals I was in such misery and dis
comfort, that it seemed at times like
I would have to give up eating entire
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ly have enough energy and strength
to do my housework. I was getting
very discouraged, because I tried ev
ery kind of medicine that I thought
timiaîldmoney" ' ^ " W " °
I knew a lot of people here who
were praising Sargon for the good it
i ^ve ^ken ^Iree bottles ^ncTl
f ee i j us t like a different woman. Myj
nervous system seems normal. I go
down town now in the jam of people
; a £ d cars, and it doesn't worry me in
goodnight's sleep and rest^and en
j 0 y doing my housework in the mom
ing. It never tires me any more and
I ^ ee I strong and well in every
W ^'*Sar on has certainl p ro ved its
true worth bf my^ase and** I feel like
it should be in every home."
The above statement was made re
too^,''i,"higW^wmS 1 resWen't
0 f 1922-2% St, South Minneapolis.
Sargon may be obtained in Plenty
wood at Miller's Pharmacy.
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court at Waukegan issued a tempor
ary injunction against the strikers.
Federal Action
Federal action seemed imminent, in
asmuch as the interstate shipments
of milk were involved. George E. Q.
Johnson, U. S. district attorney, an
mmneed he was ready to act if any
complaints were made to him.
Mayor Thompson came to the fore
with the information that he opposed
the increase of 35 cents per hundred
weight, asked by the farmers, mem
bers of the Pure Milk Association. He
$5,476,000 additional each year,
said it would cost Chicago residents
More than one million pounds of
milk have been destroyed since the
strike started three weeks ago, when
the larger distributors such as the
Bowman Dairy Co. and the Borden
company refused to meet the new
price asked, $2.86. It was the Bow
man company which filed the petition
for injunction at Waukegan.
Will Get Together
It appeared likely that the Indiana
farmers and dealers would get to
gether, many of the dealers having
signed an areement to increase Mon
day.
W. C. McQueen, president of the
association, said the increase of 35
cents a hundredweight would mean
approximately three-fourths of a cent
a quart to the distributor. If the'
consumer were to pay 1 cent more a
quart, and this - passed on to the
farmer, the producers would get $2.96
a hundred pounds, or more than ask
ed, he explained.
Chicago's milk supply Sunday was
400,000 quarts under normal, although
distributors said they had been able
to supply all demands. A greater
shortage for Monday and Tuesday
was predicted,
MISSING MILK TRUCK
DRIVER RETURNS SAFELY
Burlington, Wis., Jan. 21.T-A milk
truck driver, raising for several hours
Monday after a posse of farmers sur
rounded his truck just over the Wal
worth county line, returned here late
Monday to report the posse had emp
tied all the 11,000 pounds of milk car
ried on the truck on the ground.
Search had been carried on for the
driver after James Block, owner of a
Chicago bound truck, who was fol
lowing him in another car saw the
posse gather around the truck. He
came here for help and returned to
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w here he last saw the machine, only
to find it missing.
The driver said that he had been
forced to drive on a few miles and the
posse took the milk tanks from the j
machine and emptied its contents. !
They let him go and he returned here !
with the machine.
Arhdtration Is Agreed (hi At Confer
ence After Day of Violence.
Chicago, Jan. 22.—Butter prices on
tire* Mercantile Exchange today per
carload were quoted at $8,784 as com
pared with $8,640 yesterday. Large
interests were buying for January and
February deliveries in the belief that
milk ordinarily used for the manufac
ture ° f buttcr w<rald be diïerted 40
other channels to relieve the shortage
of milk for domestic purposes caused
by the strike.
Chicago, Jan. 22.—Chicago's milk
strike, with its attendant displays of
violence and destruction of milk des
tined for the Chicago market, was
ded at a conference of producers,
distributors and city health officers
today.
Dr. Arnold Kegal, commissioner of
health, announced that the two fac
tions, at loggerheads for weeks over
the price to be paid for raw milk, had
counter pr0 posal is $2.50.
The conference was held after 3001
striking dairymen last night added to.
the thousands of pounds of milk that;
bave been dumped by seizing two Soo !
^ milk trains at Lake villa, Ill. I
They cowed the crews with clubs, hew-:
ed their way into four cars with pick-1
axes an d destroyed 160,000 pounds of
** was tbe outbreak of a
da ^ r °* violence in which truck drivers
were kidnapped and beaten and 272,
000. pounds of milk dumped on the
j ground.
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AM ATI A ACT?
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the gates of Deer Lodge yawn for
county commissioners and their likes,
tben ^ is altogether a different story
They simply did not want jurors
from all over the county to sit and
listen to this case. These people might
have gotten the impression that the
agreed to arbitration. Officials of
the Pure Milk association, represent
ing the striking dairymen, agreed to
order discontinuance of picketing.
The dairymen demand $2.85 a hun-l
dred for milk and the distributors' i
administration of Sheridan county is
and might
have went home and told their neigh
hors about it so thev had the countv
attoTney disn ^. s the case "for lack of
evidence," after prominent fixers
were seen j n town with $50.00 pieces
sticking out of their vest pocket and
seen going in and out of the newly
elected county attorney's office.
u this is the en d of this case, I do
not know. There are people who think
th ey are entitled to know just what
is going on in the county and I hear
them talk about a Grand Jury,
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DISTILLERY FIND
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Federal Judge Pray, which resulted
in the federal officers being severely
criticized, and a stiff sentence being
given the bootleggers, in addition to
the fine already paid the city of
Billings.
Much comment is going the rounds
in Plentywood that certain bootleg
gers are receiving rip-offs and other
consideration by officers of the law
while others are getting the limit.
Those making these comments do not
consider this line of action to be just
Valentines
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A complete assortment to choose from. Get yours
while stock is complete.
After February 1 st, we will be located in the new
brick building two doors south.
Miller's Pharmacy
Plentywood
Phone 133
0 r fair. They are demanding that
every law breaker receive the same
punishment, regardless of the "pH"
he may have with certain city offi
cials.
One. ardent prohibitionist has sug-|
gested that those wishing to
part in the Hearst plan for better
ways of controlling the liquor traffic,
gjve as one of their suggestions: that
Montana be moved into North Dakota
territory and be under the direct sup
ervision of North Dakota Prohibition
law enforcement officers.
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MALTA SHOW
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factoring Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota,
for the best exhibit of flax at the
Northern Montana District Seed Show.
In the Northern Montana Poultry
Show which was also held at Malta,
Mrs. Chas. A. Norton of Medicine
Lake carried off the foUowing awards
in the poultry classes: Buff Orping-'
ton Pullet, 2nd; Bronze Turkeys, Old;
Tom, 2nd; Old Hen, 1st; Young Hen,|
3rd.
Few of the prisoners were boohed,
on specific charges and most A them j
were held "open" on suspicion. Dctec-|
lives explained the lack of gang ,
leaders among the number by the fact;
that they evidently had been informed,'
the raids were in progress and had,
made for cover. Seventy-five shot
guns, revolvers and pistols were seiz
ed in the raids. Only five women |
were taken in the drives and so the
women's quarters of the police sta
tions were given over to the men.
Jail ïs Crowded
the afternoon showup the facil-;
ities of the new police building in the
downtown loop district were so taxei
by the enormous crowds of prisoners
and police that Chief of Detectives
Jobn Egan ordered outlying stations,
to sto P sending in prisoners.
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3400 ARRESTED
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rectors of the Exchange bank, the
closing of which Friday also caused
the First Exchange Bank of Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho, an affiliated institu
tion, to close its doors. The withdraw
al of deposits which followed discov
ery of employes' defalcations and the
bankruptcy of Fred Herrick, lumber
man, who owed money to the Ex
change, caused its suspension.
"All the state banks were cleaned
up and put in first class shape at the
time Fred Herrick turned his assets
over to a board of creditors," John
son stated. "At that time, an assess
ment was put on the stockholders of
the bank of Farmington. The bank
also had a very large balance on de
posit with the Exchange National
bank, which of course will be tied up
until the receiver makes payment. The
Bank of Farmington is one of the
best banks in eastern Washington.
Its close afiliation with the Ex
change National caused the directors
to close the Farmington bank, he said,
adding that it would "pay out 100 per
cent.
surplus of $10,000, undivided profits
of $8,000 and total resources of 332,
000 .
It has a capital of $25,000,
W. H. Baldridge, national bank ex
aminer of the state of Washington»
Saturday was appointed by the comp
troller of the treasury as receiver for
the Exchange National.
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Spokan, Jan. 21.—Two more banks
the Inland Empire were closed
Monday making in all five institu
tions which have been shut down by
their directors in order to protect de
positors.
The Miners and Smelters bank of
Northport, Wash., and the Rockford
State Bank of Rockford, Wash., the
former with approximate deposits of
$70,000 and the latter with estimated
deposits of $80,000 did not open Mon
day. The Exchange National bank of
Spokane and the First Exchange Na
tional of Coeur d'Alene, Ida., and the
Bank of Colville had shut down last
week. All the smaller banks either
had heavy deposits with the Exchange
National or were owned by its offi- #
cers and were affiliated with it.
LEGISLATURE
(Continued from page One)
committee on mrj s ana means,
House Bill No. 1, relating to t e
salanes of watchmen, carpenters and
a ^ors at the capitol, was referred to
h ^«om m rtt ee on > 3bor -
n ° u - e f ul f ' ' P , . K
licensing of all autq drivers, va»
J^ittee on nub
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ic sa ey.
After Drunken Drivers
The following notices of bills were
read;
ing penalties for driving on the pub
lie highways while intoxicated or un
der the influence of narcotics.
By Rigg—Relating to trespassing
animals within herd districts, pro
ceedings in respect thereto and dis
position of proceeds of sale.
By Parker—Relatmg 10 prl0r f y
rights in the appropriation of water
and giving preference to uses of wa
yesterday, making a total of 32 now
up for consideration.
House Bill No. 30, introduede by
Logan, has to do with the sale in
bulk of wares and merchnadise by
vendors and for the protection of
creditors. It was referred to the
By Dougherty and McRae—Provid
ter for beneficial purposes.
For Revolving Fund -
By Jones—Authorizing the creation
maintenance and use of a special im
provement district revolving fund ia
any city or town for the purpose of
securing prompt payaient of special
improvement district bonds or war
rants and interest thereon and requir
ing levy of taxes when necessary for
the financial requirements of such
fund.
By Jones—Making special improve
ment district taxes a lien on property
of equal standing with iens for gener
al taxes.
By Johnson—Providing for a 10
day waiting period before marriage
license may be issued after applica
tion has been made.
By Lillis—Regulating the posses
sion, use, sale, and dispensation of
marihuana, its derivatives, mixtures
or preparations.
By Lillis—Amending the narcotic
drug act.
By Sample, Miller of Fergus, Ar
nold of Stillwater and Dougherty
Relative to judicia districts and the
number of judges therein.
By Curran, Wickware and Hodg»"
habitual criminal
kiss—Defining an
and providing penalties.