The Bozeman courier., March 16, 1921, Image 1

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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 16, 1921.
VOL. 51.
THE BOZEMAN COURIER,
NUMBER 15.
WOOL GROWERS WILL!
GATHER IN HELENA
Vç— ial Meeting of Montana Asso
ciation Flans Important Work
for Members
planning to attend. Labor problems,
The Montana Wool Growers' assici
at ion will hold a general meeting in
Helena next Saturday and letters are
being sent to all the members urging
them to attend. There are many im
portant matters to come before this
meeting that will be of keen interest
to the sheepmen of the Gallatin and
quite a few local flockmasters are
shearing charges, the warehousing
and selling of the 1921 clip will all
be considered and at this meeting a
plan of affiliation of the various lo
cal organizations with the state as
sociation will be considered.
Temporary Secretary Arnett has is
sued a circular letter to the different
sheepmen and says in part,
"It is felt by many that operating
costs can be held to the minimum if
the various questions are discussed!
and agreed upon by the men in the
state. Local associations are import
ant and should be directly connected
with a state association, as more ef- /
fective results may be expected from
a general agreement that is state
wide.
"Obviously, the question of great
est importance to every wcolgrower
is—how best to handle and dispose of
this year's clip of wool. Indications
are that comparatively little wool will
be bought at shearing pens this year.
Storage in a U. S. bonded warehouse
is considered by many to be the best
and only solution offered under pres
ent conditions. Receipts from a ware
house operatiing under the U.
Bonded Warehouse Act are good col
lateral and should enable the grower
to get an advance on his wool to help
defray operation expense. This will
bo thoroughly discussed by competent
authorities, men who have had ex
(* porience and know the operation of
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the U. S- Bonded Warehouse Act. Mr.
Staff of the National Wool Warehouse
and Storage Co., has been invited to
address the meeting. This is an or
ganization of sheep men and the
warehouse is operating under Licen
ses Number 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the U. S.
Warehouse Act.
both houses of congress has been
vetoed by the president. This means
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"The Fordney Tariff bill passed by
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Y" REPORT SHOWS
INCREASED SERVICE
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Increased activity in all depart
nients of the Y. M. C. A. and a cor
.responding increase in the revenues
Added Interest in All Departments
But Particularly in Gymnasium
Work *
ed the institution as compared to
last year was shown at the regular
directors' meeting of the Y. M. C A.,
held Monday evening. The physical
department showed that far more peo
pie are availing themselves of the
gymnasium privileges and activities
in al lines of sport are commanding
mere interest each month.
At the business session of the meet
inr a change was made in the insur
ante cn the building. Hitherto* $40,
000 has been carried on the entire
plrnt but this was changed to read
$25.^ • on the building and $4,000 on
the equipment. L. W. Truitt resign
ed as a director and William Hoi
longsworth was elected to succeed
him. A committee on the summer
boys' camp was appointed ccnsistm?
of R. M. Esgar, C. S. Kenyon and O.
A. Lynn.
Sec. J. H. Williams' report show
ed a membership of 582 for the five
months of the current year, which
started October 1. This membership
is divided as follows: Sustaining 39,
business men 129, senior 36, college
students 129, high school students 65,
grade schools 100, women 69, girls 33,
making donations 82. The receipts
for the month of February were
$959,5.. against $551.85 for the corres
ponding month of last year. For the
five months of the current year the
receipts were $8,391.82. For the cor-*
responding five months of the previ
ous year they were $4,938.22. The
estimated receipts from March 1 are
$3,726, and the estimated expenses
$7,477, leaving a balance of $3,752 to
„ 60 made up by friends of the institu
tion, The budget is $3,000 less than
the directors anticipated for the year.
Report of the physical director, W.
B. Maddox, showed that during
February there were 485 men, 728
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Added Courses for Ex-Service Men
Will Be Offered at College
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Leif Fredericks, supervisor for the
Montana district of the Federal
Board of Vocational Education spent
Monday and Tuesday in the city con
sulting with the vocational men at
the college in regard to their work
and looking into a prospective plan
for the enlargement of the work to
be given at the local institution for
the benefit of these ex-service men.
According to Mr. Fredericks there
will be more special courses given
at the college next year in what
might be called a pre-vocational line.
In other words some of the men who
are taking the vocational work are
deficient in their preparatory courses
and it is the intention of the govern
ment to give special work along these
elementary lines. This will be called
a guidance school. There is already
one special instructor at the college
in this line and it is expected that
j next year w i,i see a nee d f or two or
j three.
Mr Federicks also said it was
î the hope of the board to establish
I for these vocational men certain
j courses that are not now given at the
j college, courses laid along practical
■ iiftes and that if this comes about the
board will furnish both instructors
and equipment to the local institution.
Mr. Fredericks says there are at
present some 90 men taking vocation
( al work at the college and it is
! expected that there will be at least
150 next year. There are some 450
vocational men receiving training in
the state at the present time and in
addition there are in the neighbor
hood of 500 mere whose applications
| have been approved but who for per
! sonal reasons have not yet availed
; themselves of the opportunity. The
1 men at the college now are doing
j good work and progressing rapidly,
j More vocational men are enrolled at
the State university, than at any other
mately 100 men there, most of them
taking forestry. Of the men at the
college the major part are taking ag
riculture, though there are some en
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state institution, there being approxi
It is the idea of the board
! to secure practical training for these
j men during the coming summer
, months.
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CHAMBER APPOINTS
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NEW COMMITTEES
1 Working Committees for Coming
Year Are Appointed
The Bozeman chamber of commerce
has appointed its chief working com
mittees for the coming year, the
■»ersonnel of the different committees
being approved at the recent meeting
cf the board of directors. Two other
main committees are yet to be ap
pointed, the aviation and the tourist.
As it is through committees that the
major portion of the work of the
c hamber will be done during the next
year, these appointments have im
portant bearing on what will be ac
complished by the body.
The committees follows:
Finance and budget committee;
F. O- Wilton, chairman; A. G. Ber
thot, George Cox, L. W, Truitt, J. A.
Harader, secretary.
Committee on dairying;
J. P. Fabrick, chairman; G. L, Mar
lin, A, E. Westlake, S. W. Collett,
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r;|DlX0N ASKS FOR MANY IMPORTANT BILLS
NOT PASSED AT THE REGULAR SESSION
Battle in Special Session of Legislature Is Between Dixon and Re
actionary Members of Senate. Tom AiTnur Is Ac
cused of Peddling Votes of Legislative Body.
Some Few Measures Pass.
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Helena, March 15—Having* had, in
addition to the legislative sugges
tions conveyed in three separate mes
sages from Governor Dixon, all the
excitement attendent upon the sen
ate's investigation of alleged trading
of votes upon the tax commission
and oil production tax measures, the
extraordinary session has been one
j of considerable interest during the
past week,
Much time and attention has been
given by the members, particularly
the senators, in the Investigation of
the statement attributed to Thomas
Arthur, the main oil lobbyist, to the
effett that h e had found it necessary
to "trade" or "deliver" five votes in
the senate and nine in Uie house up
on these matters. The alleged state
ment was made at a meeting in the
tea room of the Northern hotel at
Billings on the day upon which the
legislature convened in extra session
and which was attended by a party
of Billings businessmen with a view
to taking steps to protect Billings
from loss of trade as a result of the
stand of the Yellowstone county dele
gation in opposition to a low oil tax.
The matter was called to the at
tention of the legislature in the first
message of Governor Dixon, deliver
ed last Tuesday, and resulted in a
committee being appointed which has
conducted daily hearings and
since
has summoned and examined all the
men who were present at the Billings
meeting. The evidence, taken in pub
lic, has been very contradictory al
though most of the witnesses testi
fied that Mr. Arthur made some re
marks relating to the delivery of
votes upon the oil measure. Some of
them testified he referred to his work
before the regular session, others
that he was referring to what could
be done at the extra sessioik, some
did not hear the statement and none
of them was able to agree with the
others as to positively what he did
say.
When he took the stand Mr. Arthur
absolutely denied having made the
statement credited to him, denied
that he had participated in any trad
ing of votes and insisted that no
trading had been placed. He admitt
ed that he had said at this meeting
"We have got Mr. Dixon where we
can crucify him and By
will do it
practically completed but the commit
tee has not yet prepared its report.
A committee has been appointed in
the house to investigate and report
in connection with the suggestion
that nine house votes wepe involved
but it is awaiting the completion of
the senate investigation before tak
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The investigation is
mg any steps.
Governor Dixon in his message ask
ed for a tax upon oil production larg
cr than the one per cent tax im
posed during the regular session;
YELLOWSTONE TRAIL
WILL BE IMPROVED
Commissioners Plan Changes in Road
Over the Mountains
Monday morning County Çommis
sioneers Moore, Duncan and Dai'lin
ton took the train to Livingston for
a conference with the Park county
commissioneers relative to improve
ments of the trail between Bozeman
and Livingston. At the present time
the trail is practically impassible
during the winter months owing to
enow which drifts over the road
where the road is above the tunnel.
The engineers of the state highway
commission believe that they can re
construct the road and by changing
.some three miles can build a highway
that will have no trouble, with the
snow. In addition to this the pro
posed new highway will eliminate
two dangerous grade crossings, one
at either end of the tunnel.
In order to build this road the lo
cal commissioneers are to cooperate
with the commissioners of Park coun
ty and together the two boards will
seek government aid for the project.
It this is secured the cost* will be
ITeatly lessened. In addition to the
government aid it is thought that
the elimination of the two grade
crossings will be of sufficient interest
to the Northern Pacific for that rail
road to aid materially in 4he constru
ction of the new road. As yet the
plans for the change are purely ten
tative, but it is the hope of the com
missioners that the construction can
be undertaken this summer.
asked for a more scientific inheri
tance tax than had been passed dur
ing the regular session; condemned
the Dearborn "blue sky" law and
presented a communication from the
board of railroad
commissioners
which was authorized to administer
the law in which the board held the
law to be a joke; called attention to
a serious defect in the common car
rier oil pipe line bill; asked for the
abolishment of one judgship in the
Fifth judicial district; asked for ade
Quate machinery for the carrying out
c f the tax laws in lieu of the lax
-commission which had been defeated
in the regular assembly; and want
ed a larger appropriation for the tub
erculosis sanitarium.
He returned with his veto the five
cents per barrel tax bill upon cement,
which he held to be unreasonable and
asked for a measure carrying a low
er tax; and requested that the legis
lature give the attorney general some
reasonable law to permit him to en
force the provisions of the prohibi
cion law.
A second message was transmitted
to the assembly last Thursday in
which the governor asked that the ad
ministration of the corporation license
tax law be taken from the state treas
urer and placed in the hands of the
board of equalization; asked, that an
appropriation be made to pay Frank
Woody, former deputy attorney gen
eral, for his services in drawing bills
at the request of the governor; ask
ed for an appropriation for the mak
ing of repairs to the capitol build
ing, and for a bill providing for the
appointment of members of the na
tional committees of the various part
ies.
Still another message was deliver
ed to the assembly on Monday of the
present week in which the governor
asked passage of a bill accepting the
provisions of the federal - aid highway
law; asked for a new measure for
distribution of the state's share of
money collected by the federal govern
ment in royalties, bonuses and rent
als on public lands; asked an additi
onal appropriation of $ 10,000 to buy
land for the schools for deaf and
blind at Boulder; asked for the cor
rection of ovei'sights in general ap
propriation measures by authorizing
the board of examiners to administer
lump appropriations; and asked that
appropriations be made to çovsr de
ficiencies aggregating $10,364 which
had been overlooked during the regu
lar session,
Already bills covering many of the
matters contained in the messages,
including those in the xnessar-c of
yesterday, have been introduced and
are in process of passage through the
asscmbly.
The house has already passed on
third reading the oil production tax
measure which was introduced with
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BUTTE GIRL WINS
SPEAKING CONTEST
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Contest
Miss Helen McGregor of Butte
high school won first place in the ex
temporaneous speaking contest held
in connection with the basketball
tournament, speaking on the subject
The gentleman's agreement has fail
ed to solve the Japanese immigration
problem of the United States." Ar
chie Blair of Forsyth won second and
William Barney of Helena places
third.
The contest was held in the audi
torium of the Emerson high school on
Saturday afternoon, President Atkin
son of the college presiding. Music
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was furnished by the college orches
tra. The judges were Miss Hazel
Ward, Custer county high school;
Miss Ruth Sweat, formerly of Teton
county; W. L. Beam,, Beaverhead
county high school; H. H. Blanchard,
Anaconda high school and G. A. Ket
cham of the Missoula high school.
Miss McGregor had a most pleasing
delivery, speaking easily and making
the most of the points she gave. The
winning gives her a gold medal and
a wour year's scholarship at the Mon
tana State college.
Archie Blair spoke on the subject,
California's anti-alien land laws are
justified." His subjeefc-was well han
dled, and his appearance and de
livery were both good.
Barney discussed the subject "The
chief foreign obligation of the Uni
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wore not -sold at the first ad
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3 are of ten years' life with the
privilege of redemption at the
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WILL ACCEPT OFFICE
'TIL CHANGE COMES
Old City Officers Willing to Serve
Until City Manager Is
Voted On
As a result of the fact that no pri
mary election for city officers was
held in Bozeman this spring, the only
recourse left for nomination the may
or, city treasurer, police judge and
aldermen is by petition. At a meet
ing held Monday and attended by the
heads of the two county central com
mittees and a number of men inter
ested in promoting the city-manager
form of government in Bozeman the
local situation was thoroughly can
vassed and pending the election and
installation of a city manager, the
present mayor and council have given
their permission to their being nomi
nated by petition and will, if elected,
serve until such time as the city
manager form of government takes
effect.
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| up and sufficient signatures obtained
to submit the question of a city man
ager to the people at a special elec
tion, to be held at no distant date.
It is believed that the matter will car
Petitions have already been drawn
ry and if this is so it would be the
height of folly to elect a new mayor
and aldermen to run the city for the
few months that will elapse before
the new manager takes hold. When
this matter was put up to the mayor
and the four retiring alderman they
consented to run again with that un
derstanding- As it takes several
months for an alderman or mayor to
become conversant with the details of
tlm duties imposed, the heads of the
central committees and others who
j are interested in civic affairs believe
it far better for the old officers to
hold over than to attempt to put new
men in for so short a time.
There was some hesitancy among
the retiring officers about permitting
their names to be used again, as the
mayor and the four alderman all wish
to be relieved of the duties of their
offices, but when the matter was put
to them in the light of civic welfare
and as a temporary arrangement,
they consented. As a result there
will be no party tickets in the field
and the following will be named by
petFie n fer the city eTice;::
Mayor— C. W. Sweet.
Treasurer—Frank W. Kyle.
Police judge—George W. Ellis.
Aldermen—First ward, Paul Da
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BOOTLEGGER DRAWS ,
FOUR MONTHS IN JAIL
Man Convicted By Jury Is Given
Sentence By District Court
Frank Rossi, an Italian of Trident,
found guilty by a jury in the district
court of selling whiskey at Trident,
was sentenced Saturday by Judge
Law to serve four months in the coun
ty jail. It was the original intention
of the judge to ostpone the sentence
of Rossi until after the trial of Pas
quale Melito, charged with the same
offense, but when the county attor
ney asked;to have the Melito case dis
missed for lack of evidence the judge
decided to sentence Rossi at once.
In sentencing Rossi Judge Law said
that he believed the jury had come to
the right conclusion in the case. The
judge said that there was no evi
dence that there had been a general
distribution of liquor, but that it \yas
a dangerous thing to handle at any
time.
Rossi had no comments to make
and will begin his sentence at once.
BILLINGS VICTOR
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Defeats Forsyth for Championship in
Slow Game. Dillon in Third
Place
After nine years of effort the Bill
ings high school basketball team
'again won the interscholastic cham
pionship of Montana at the college
Saturday night when they defeated
Forsyth 22 to 8 in one of the slowest
j final gaines ever staged at the big
j high school event.
Billings won the
1 first championship ten years ago but
(were never able to repeat until last
week. The real deciding game of the
tournament was in the semi-finals
when Billings played Dillon, last
year's champions and won by the
score of 16 to 12 . Chai'acterized by
many upsets of the dope sheet and
featured a number of close games,
i the tenth annual tournament of the
! college was*one of the best yet held
j by the local institution,
j The sixteen teams which came to
j Bozeman to contest for final honors
on the floor this year consisted of
Billings, Helena, Forsyth, Butte, Dar
by, Missoula, Wolf Point, Libby,
Sweet Grass, Gallatin, Whitehall, Dil
lon, Teton, Choteau, Flathead and
Dawson. The tournament was a
straight elimination contest and the
ifnal order of the teams were Bill
ings, Forsyth, Dillon, Sweet Grass,
Libby, Helena and Darby in the ord
er named. The other teams failed
to qualify for the ranking positions
The attendance this year was better
and even for the preliminary games
the gymnasium was almost full.
There was not enough room to begin
to hold the crowds that attended both
Friday and Saturday evenings. Even
the morning games were well attend
ed and on Saturday morning, when
the semi-finals were played, stand
ing room in the gymnasium was at
at the tournament, the Billings team
i that won and the Dillon team last
y ear » s victors. Unfortunately these
t wo teaihs both were drawn in the
a premium.
Two teams stood above the rest
upper frame of the tournament and
met in the semi-finals instead of the
deciding game of the event. The
other teams that qualified for the
final ranking were all strong aggre
gations and with different breaks in
the luck and less over confidence on
the part of one or two teams, the
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CLEANING COUNTY
OF TUBERCULAR COWS
County Agent and Federal Officers
Are Working to Give Gallatin
Clean Herds
With four federal veterinarians
working with him, County Agent R.
E. Bodley is busy endeavoring to
finish Jiis campaign of cleaning the
county of ail tubercular cows. Bod
dey's is a race .against time, for
when the weather breaks and the far
mers are busy with spring work they
cannot be expected to stop to test
! their cattle, indeed the cattle them
1 selves will be turned out to pasture,
j hence there remain but a few weeks
| or even less in which the veterinar
ians can work,
Just now the men are working in
ths Manhattrn country, taking a dis
trict at a time. Mr. Bodley is going
ahead organizing the districts for the
work and getting the cattle run in so
that the work can go forward rapidly.
With the exception of one locality,
where some 20 head of tubercular
cattle were discovered, but few ani
mals show any reaction to the tests.
Several thousand cattle in the county
have been tested and the per cent of
the cattle showing this disease is so
small that it encourages the work,
that Gallatin county may have an ab
solutely clean bill of health.
The work necessitates two trips
to every farm, one when the cattle
are injected with the serum and a
later one to determine if there are
any reactors. The cattle are in no
way injured by the treatment and if
there are any reactors the farmer is
paid for them at their assessed valu
ation. In other words if he has put
his cattle in at the full value to the
county treasure—as of course we all
have—he needs fear no loss.
Farmers interested in having their
cattle tested, the work is free, should
call Mr. Bodley at hia office and make
arrangements with him. It is to the
advantage of everyone to have an en
tire district tested at one time, for
not only will such a method wipe out
all the existing disease, but it will
save Mr. Bodley and his assistants
much time.