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BOZEMAN, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1923
NUMBER 51
53rd. YEAR
TREASURE STATE
TOPS GRAIN SHOW
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MONTANA ACHIEVES ENVIABLE
RECORD IN SMALL GRAIN
AT CHICAGO SHOW ,
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Good Publicity
The State of Montana Again Demon
strates That She Leads the World
In Quality On Durum and Hard Red
Winter and Spring Wheat and Tops ■
Union On Oats.
That Montana has again shown her
supremacy over the entire continent
in the growing of quality small
grains was seen in the receipt, this
week, of the official placings and
winning of top-notch premimums by
Treasure state farmers in the annual
International Grain & Hay show held
in Chicago.
Oliver C. Bicring, owner of a fine
farm located about one mile south of
Bozeman in the heart of the irriga
ted section of the valley, won second
premium on hard red spring wheat.
Montana was the only state in the
Union that won top placings on oatSj
the most of the winnings going to
exhibits from the province of Al
berta in Canada .
Using Registered Seed
Mr. Biering, when notified of his
,winnings by County Agent R.
Bodloy who showed him a telegram
he had received from A. J. Ogaard,
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extension agronomist of Montana '
Star • college who was in charge of ;
Montana's exhibits at the big show,!
ho said: "We can't afford to stop
where we are, but must keep going
ahead in order to maintain the big
lead we now enjoy. Next year I am
going to put in registered wheat, re
gistered oats and registered barley in
all three of which I am sure we can
lend the world.
The world's trophy for the best
•peck of Durham wheat was won by
I.. E. Peterson, of Victor, Montana.
Clyde Norton, of Columbus, in Still
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GRAIN JUDGING TRIO
IN WORLD'S CONTEST
STATE COLLEGE TEAM, WINNER
OF HONORS AT PORTLAND,
NOW IN CHICAGO
Montana's prize - winning grain,
judging team of the Montana State
college, departed last Saturday after
noon for Chicago, where they are
competing against crack teams from
almost every state in the Union, as
well as the Canadian provinces in
the annual International Livestock,
Hay and Grain show which opened
Monday in the Windy City.
The members of the team which
took first place at the Pacific Inter
national at Portland last month, and
who will represent the college at
Chicago are:
of Libby, a junior in General Agri
culture; William D. Hay of Hamil
Winton Weydemeyer,
ton, a senior in Agronomy; and Louis
B. Newman, a junior in Agronomy.
The fact that the team was able to
make the trip to Chicago was due to
the efforts of the local chapter of
Alpha Zeta, honorary agricultural
fraternity, which instituted a cam
for subscriptions Ito finance
paign
the trip. Great enthusiasm and the
heartiest support was found by the
fraternity throughout its campaign,
both in the college itself, in the town
of Bozeman, and among the alumni
throughout the entire state.
Over $400.00 was raised by a com
mittee of the fraternity in less than ,
a week. Heartiest support of the
team was found wherever asked, and
the required amount was raised with
out the slightest difficulty.
Particular credit in the success of
the endeavor to finance the trip of
the grain team is due to the members
of the committee selected to canvass
the college and the town. Donald
McMillan was the chairman of the
committee and was assisted by Le
Roy Powers and A. G. Stevens. Mr.
J. C. Taylor, an alumni member of
the chapter who is now county agent
leader for Montana also did very not
able work in securing subscriptions
from the alumni of M. S. C. Sub
scriptions " tT ere received from the
atamni who had graduated many
years «go, and had almost complete
ly lost touch with the college.
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INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL
SCHEDULE OF THE M. S. C.
Thursday, Dec. 6
Independents vs. Sigma Chi.
Beta Epsilon vs. S. A. E.
Faculty vs. Barbs.
Saturday, Dec. 8, 2 O'clock
H. O. M. vs. Omega Beta.
Independents vs. S. A. E,
Sigma Chi vs. Beta Epsilon.
Monday, Dec. 10
Faculty vs. H. O. M.
Barbs vs. Omega Beta.
Independents vs. Beta Epsilon.
Tuesday, Dec. 11
Sigma Chi vs. S. A. E.
Faculty vs. Omega Beta.
Barbs vs. H. 0. M.
Wednesday, Dec. 12
Independents vs. Faculty.
Sigma Chi vs. Barbs.
Sigma Chi vs. Barbs.
S. A. E. vs. H. O. M.
Thursday, Dec. 13
Beta Epsilon vs'. Omega Beta.
Independents vs. Barbs.
Sigma Chi vs. Faculty.
Friday, Dec. 14
S. A. E. vs. Omega Beta.
Beta Epsilon vs. Barbs.
Independents vs. H. O. M.
Saturday, Dec. 15, 2 O'clock
Sigma Chi vs. Omega Beta.
S. A. E. vs. Faculty.
Bela lip. lion vs. H. O. M.
Monder, Dec. 17
Independents vs. Omega Beta.
Sigma Chi vs. H. O. M.
S. A. E. vs. Barbs.
Tuesday, Dec. 18
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sary.
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The High School Seniors defeated
the Juniors Monday night in a slow
basketball game, the score being 9
to 14. In the second game the Frosh
won from the Sophs by a score of
12 to 11. The Frosh and Sophs are
now tied for first place while the
Seniors and Juniors are tied for
third.
FUNERAL SERVICES
HELD FOR E.T. COOK
Funeral services for E. T. Cook,
aged 64 years, a pioneer Gallatin
county rancher residing for many
years near Three Forks, who passed
away Saturday, Nov. 24, at his home
after a lingering illness from heart
trouble, were held last Saturday
afternoon at 2 o'clock from the
Presbyterian church in Three Forks.
The remains were prepared by Un
dertaker E, W. Hariand in this city
and were taken early Saturday morn
ing to Three Forks where interment
was made in the Three Porks ceme
tery. Mr. Hariand had charge of
the funeral arrangements.
Deceased is survived by Ms widow,
a daughter, Mrs. Foreman, of Bridg
er, and by several other children re
siding out of the state.
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RING LEADER OF AUTO THIEF GANG
ASKS CLEMENCY AND BEGS FOR TIME
Former Respected Automobile Garage Owner in Livingston, Who Turns
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Out to Be Regular "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in Being Head of Organized
Band of Automobile Thieves, and Confesses to Theft of Car While Out
Under Bonds in Salt Lake City, Pleads*to Court for Clemency and Time,
While Second Wife and Children Look On.
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Stranger by far than the most I
imaginative fiction Is the life history ;
of Ralph R. Ege, foTmer owner of
the United Motors Corporation, of |
Livingston, Wilsall and Big Timber, !
and member of a highly respected j
family in Iowa, who is now in Salt ;
I^ake, Utah, awaiting sentence to be 1
passed upon him for the participa*
tion in a number of automobile
thefts, to which he recently con
fessed. While out of jail, under $10,
000 bail br-nds furnished by an aunt,
Ege sto e a Cadillac car, to which
he also later confessed. His plea
for clemency is being held under ad
visement by the Salt Lake court, and
a decision in the case has been post
poned until the end of next Febru
ary.
• During hi3 first f ew years resi
dence in Liv'n^s^on Ego boro the
highest reputation, having been re
ceived in the 1 , nicest families and
joining one of the most exclusive
fraternal lodges. His mode of liv
EIGHT OPFRl N FVT
NUMBER OF COURSE
The second number of the Artists 's
Course which is being presented under
the auspices of the Woman's club this
winter, is coming to Ellen Theater
December 11.
charming light opera, "The Impersa
rio" which is written about Mozart,
This offering is a
Mr. Hemus is ably supported by
such fine singers as Hazel Hunting
the great composer. Not only does
Mozart figure in the plot of this oper
atic comedy, but his exquisite
is interwoven throughout the pro
duction.
Percy Hemus, the celebrated bari
tone, plays the leading part of The
Impresario, or theatrical
who has no end of difficulties in en
gaging singers for a road show. Not
only is the music sparkling and tune
ful, but the dialog is full of gay
witticisms and quips that keep the
audience in a continal glare of laugh
ter.
music
manager,
don, Lotice Howell, Thomas McGrana
han and Francis Tyler. Gladys Cra
ven, a brilliant accompaniest, is at
the piano. The opera will be sung in
English, which will be good news to
any American audience the members
of which sometimes wonder, when
they listen to Italian, German and
French librettos, why the English
language should be so frequently ig
nored in the realm of vocal music.
ing finally reaching a climax in an
automobile accident in Butte in which
he sustained a brain injury which
rendered him unconscious for sev
eral weeks and from which he is
thought never to have fully recov
ered. Those who know him best be
lieve that thia accident caused a
pressure on the brain which is at
least partially responsible for his
later crimes.
He was married twice, his first
wife leaving for her home in the east
after only a few days of married
life. His second wife was a widow
with two children, to whom the Salt
bake papers refer to as having at
tended the hearing in Salt Lake in
which Ege presented his pQea for
clemency.
Gngler la The Goat
The meaning between the lines in
the following story in the Big Tim
ber Pioneer can oe better grasped
when it is explained that Gugler
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Impressive Elks' Memorial day, of
"lodge of sorrow," services were held
Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian
church by the local lodge of Elks.
These services are held by the ant
lered organization simultaneously
throughout the United States on
IELKS PAY TRIBUTE
TO DEAD MEMBERS
first Sunday *in December of every
year.
Besides the regular memorial ritual
of the order, there was a special pro-1
gram of both voeal and instrumental
music: a memorial address delivered
by Bro. Lewis Terwillinger, of Liv
ingston lodge No. 246, a eulogy by!
Fred F Lay, /J
Mr. Lay pointed out that a iota
of 48 have passed away during the
existence of the Bozeman lodge, o
which number the following died ur_
ing the past year: C. W. Hoffman,
June 24 »
Smith, Sept. 20; H. H. î erguson, Sept.
Lamme, Sept. 30, and C.
^r&nsham, Nov. 6.
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Mrs. Ernest Border and infant son,
were discharged yesterday fuom the
Deaconess hospital and left for the
home of Mrs. Border's mother-in-law
Mrs. Sarah Border, on Seventh ave
nue south, where they will visit for
a short time before going to their
home.
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ALLEGED BANK BANDITS ARRESTED
IN SENSATIONAL RAID AT HAVRE
SIX MEN AND TWO WOMEN TAKEN AT HAVRE WHILE
SHERIFF JIM SMITH GOES TO SALT LAKE
MONDAY TO BRING BACK FOUR MORE
List of 26 Robberies
Former State Representative, Former Sheriff and Former Hill County Busi
ness Man and Three Other Havre Men and Two Women Rounded Up As
Suspects in 26 Bank Robberies and Attempted Bank Hold-Ups During
Past Three Years in One of the Greatest Raids in the Criminal Annals of
the Treasure State.
That in the recent daring robbery .
of the State Bank at Salesville, in this
county, the twenty-sixth in a series I
of successful bank robberies or at- j
tempted bank hold-ups in Montana, i
North Dakota and Canada, during the
past three years, a gang of profes
sional cracksmen, operating out of
Havre, met their Waterloo and fur
nished the last conclusive straw of
evidence of their guilt, is the opinion
of Sheriff Jim Smith, of this county;
W. S. Gordon, of the W. J. Burns De
tective agency, and the other officers
from Madison and Hill counties, all
of whom succeeded in rounding up a
total of six men and two women in
raids conducted last Wednesday in
Havre. Sheriff Jim Smith left Mon
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26 BANK ROBBERIES IN
STATE IN THREE YEARS
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The following robberies and at
tempted robberies of banks have
taken place in Montana in the past
three years:
1921
April 11—Farmers State bank of
Coburg.
May 18—Willow Creek State bank.
Aug, 8—Sumatra State bank.
Aug. 29—First National bank of
Plains.
Sept. 18—Homestead State bank.
Sept. 21—First National bank of
Denton. ~
1922
April 20—State bank of Madoc.
June
June To—First National bank of
Roy.
June 27—Corvallis State bank.
July 14—Farmers and Merchants
bank, Dixon.
July 27—First State bank of Clyde
Park.
Aug. 31—Farmers State hank of
Glentana.
Oct. 17—First National bank of
Fairfield.
Nov. 16—The Sheridan State bank.
1923
April 17—First National bank of
Valier.
May 10—Farmers State bank of
Gildford.
May 21—First State bank of Wil
liams.
May 23—Camas State bank of Hot j
Springs. j
June 11—Farmers and Merchants |
State bank of Plains.
Aug. 14—Blair & Co., State bank
of Helmville.
Sept. 5—Citizens State bank of
Clyde Park.
Sept. 17—Southern Montana State
bank of Ennis.
Oct. 19—Granite County bank of
Hall.
Nov. 6—First National bank of
Fairfield,
Nov. 10—Salesville State bank. .
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Funeral services for the late James
Harvey Sloan, aged 42 years, former
res jd en t of Bozeman and son of one of
M ontana » s earliest and most highly i
res pected pioneers, who died suddenly
j n Chicago on November 18, were held
Sunday aft ernoon at 1:30 o'clock at
the Payne Memorial Christian church
- n c j t y ( th e R ev . A. L. Chapman
officiating. The services at the gravel
in ^ B ozenmn cemetery, where in
terment was made, were in charge of
the Masonic lodges of which deceased
was a member. The funeral arrange
menta were in charge of Unted taker
E. W. Hariand.
Hymns were sung at the church by
Mrs. F. W. Cowan, Mrs. Harry WÜ
Hama, W. T. Brandenburg,
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day morning for Salt Lake City where
he went to bring back four arrested
men who were held there on suspicion
of having also been implicated in the
wholesale bank robberies of the past
few years. He stopped in Helena for
extradition papers.
The names of the men for whose
return to Montana extradition papers
were issued Monday by Governor Jo
seph M. Dixon, are Alolph Melcher,
George Dyer, Tom Martin and Frank
Warren. The charge placed against
the men by the Salt Lake City of
ficials at the time of their arrest was
first degree burglarly in connection
with the robbery of the Salesville
bank.
Woman Left in Helena
After the raid in Havre, two of the
men, "Billy" Coffron ,a Canadian, of
whom little is known in the States,
thought a police
record in Canada, and Henry Lorang
er, former sheriff of Hill county, were
brought by Sheriff Smith to Boze
man where they are being held for ar
raignment and trial on the charge of
complicity in the Salesville bank rob
bery, a large number of the bonds
stolen from the safety deposit boxes
there having been traced to the two
men. One of the women, Rae Davis,
said to be the wife of the man who
is suspected of actually pulling the
jobs and pouring the "soup," as the
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ICALL MASS MEETING
FOR WHEAT GROWERS
A mass meeting, at which not only
the wheat growers of the territory
immediately adjacent to Bozeman,
; but also the public generally, are
urged to be piesent, has been called
for Saturday afternoon at 1:30
o'clock at the Courthouse by the ten
tative committee composed of H. S.
Buell, R. J. Pasha and J. J. Stucky
to discuss the proposed export cor
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GALLATIN COUNTY RANCHERS
URGED TO JOIN LEAGUE TO
PETITION CONGRESS
poration and the formation of an
Agricultural Export league for the
protection of wheat growers which
was formulated last week in Helena.
M. L. Wilson, of the State college,
who has just returned from Wash
ington, D. C., has been invited to
explain the proposed plan and to
answer any questions that may be
asked him by those present.
Preceding the meeting in Boze
man, there will be open mass meet
ing held tomorrow afternoon, Thurs
day, at 2:30 o'clock at the Town hall
in Belgrade, and Friday afternoon
at 3:00 o'clock at the Community hall
Manhattan.
The proposed plan V**. originated
by the American Wheat Growers As
sociation, Inc., in the Corn Exchange
» Minneapoha, Mum., of wh.=h Geo
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"ill creating an
P»rt comm.ss.ou consist.!.* of the
Secretary of the Treasury, the »<**
retary of Commerce and the Secre
tary of Agriculture, the latter being
the chairman, and who would have
power to levy a tax upon all the
saleable wheat produced in the Un
ited States. The fund thus created
would then be applied as a premium
on that portion of the wheat crop
which is sold for export. Inasmuch
as the export portion of the Crop
is less than ons-fourth of the total
production, the hushelage tax collect
ed would be increased fourfold when
agricultural ex
applied as a
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