LOCAL
PPENEVa\
Wylie Davis, of Jeffers,
was
business caller in town yesterday.
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Mrs. Clara Morgan is ill at ^her
home on Bozeman avenue, north.
Horace Cleveland, of Norris,
a business caller in the county seat
the first part of the week.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vandermeer,
of Anceny, were shopping in town
the latter part of last week.
Wallace Keown departed Sunday
for Chicago, where he will visit his
sister, Miss Kathryn Keown, for sev
eral weeks.
Oscar Francis, of the Yellowstone
Trail garage in Livingston, was a
business visitor in Bozeman yester
day and Monday,
O. E. Keyes, of Wilsall, a well
krtown former resident of this city,
was a business caller here the latter
part of last week.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Emery,
518 Third avenue, south, Monday, De
cember 10, a daughter. Mr. Emery
is an ex-service man.
Mrs. Charles Moffett and little
daughter, Bettie Jane, left the South
Side hospital Sunday and have gone to
their home on Black avenue, south.
Mrs. Sarah Concerse, of Anaconda,
who has been spending sereval weeks
in Bozeman visiting Mrs. J. R. Cham
bers, departed Monday for her home.
Mrs. Charles Gray, who has been
assisting at the South Side hospital,
left the institution Sunday for her
home at 215 West Mendenhall street.
Larry W. Watson was the guest of
honor at a surprise birthday party
given Tuesday evening by Mrs. Wat
son at their home, 207 Black avenue,
north.
Mrs. George Walker and son Wayne
were discharged from the South Side
hospital Sunday and left for the home
of her mother, Mrs. G. W, Granger,
on Lindley Place.
Miss Lucile Quaw, county super
intendent of schools, attended a meet
ing held last Friday at Manhattan
under the auspices of the County Af
fairs committee.
Miss Edith Ackerman, superinten
dent of the Deaconess hospital, de
parted Tuesday for Helena, "where
she is attending an area conference
of the Methodist church.
The literature section of the wom
an's club met Tuesday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. R. E. Brown. Mrs.
Raymond Beck read a paper on Ameri
can Pottery and China.
Charles Gallagher of the Gallagher
firm of Butte, spent a few
grocery
days in Bozeman visiting his sister,
Mrs. Torpey, of the Montana hotel.
He returned home Sunday evening.
Miss Minnie Amundsen has resumed
her duties as principal and teacher of
the Longfellow school. She was ab
sent about two weeks, recuperating
from the effects of a minor operation
in Butte.
The last of a series of very
pleasant bridge-luncheons was given
last Thursday afternoon by
Stuart Lovelace, at her home
Sixth avenue, south,
were present.
Mrs.
on
Sixteen guests
City Manager Mendenhall has is
sued a request that householders pay
more
snow from their sidewalks, as pro
vided in a city ordinance designed in
the interests of property owners,
renters, and pedestrians alike.
attention to the cleaning of
C. A. Nelson expects to depart Sun
day for Sumner, Wash., where he will
join Mrs. Nelson, who has been in
that city for some time on a visit with
here relatives. The Nelsons expect
to remain in Sumner at least during
the remainder of the winter.
The Housekeepers' club will meet
tomorrow afternoon, Thursday, at
2:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. San
ford Moore, 411 West Koch street.
The hostess will be assisted by Mrs.
J. E. Lang, Mrs. H. Malsor and Mrs.
A. B. Morgan.
Mrs. Charles Fridley and son
Charles, who have been visiting rela
tives and friends in Bozeman since
they returned from Reed Point, de
parted Monday for Butte, where they
will spend a few days before going
to Los Angeles, Calif,, to spend
the winter with Mrs. Fridley's broth
Karl Krueger, and his wife.
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er.
The Rev. Alexander Muirden, of
Helena, formerly of Scoby but now
representing the Intermountain Union
college at Helena, returned home
Tuesday after a week's visit in this
city securing support for the new
consolidated college.
Sunday morning at the Presbyterian
church and in the evening at the
Methodist church,
was the guest of Rev. R. P. Smith, of
the latter chuTch.
He preached
While here he
Edwatrd Grabow, assistant to
B. F. Holcomb,
public accountant, is suffering from
a severe bronchial affection, the re
sult of having been wounded and
gassed in the fierce fighting at Cha
teau Thierry in France during the
World War. He is confined to his
home on West Lamme Street, where
he is being given every attention by
Mrs. Grabow, his wife, who is a
trained nurse of many years exper
ience.
Bozeman ■ certified
High School Day Friday
The next regular monthly high
school day, on which boys and girls
from the seventh and eighth grades
of the city schools are invited to
visit the high school, will be held Fri
day, Dec. 14. A splendid program
has been arranged.
Planning Poultry Show
In order that plans may be per
fected for holding of a poultry show
in this city at an early date, a call
for a meeting of all poultry raisers at
the courthouse, Friday, Dec. 14, at 2
o'clock, has been issued by A. M.
Brandenburg, secretary-treasurer of
the Gallatin County Poultry associa
tion.
Poultry Show in Livingston
The first annual poultry show of
the Park County Poultry association
will be held in Livingston December
20 and 21, according to plans an
nounced last week by officers of the
association. No entrance fee is to
be charged, they state, the premium
money coming from a reasonable
charge for admission which will be
made. Entries are now open for all
kinds of poultry, including chickens,
turkeys, ducks and geese.
Visitors from Chico Springs
Dr. G. A. Townsend, resident phy
sician and surgeon of Chico Hot
Springs hospital, was driven over to
Bozeman the latter part of the week
by Frank Perry, Mgr, of the plunge
at the popular Park county health
resort. Dr. Townsend came over to
look over a lot of choice Gallatin coun
ty livestock for his big Upper Yellow
stone valley stock ranch above Emi
grant. Frank Perry stayed over the
week-end to visit with Bozeman
friends.
Choir Enjoys Unusual Meal
After the regular rehearsal of the
Christian church choir last Thursday
evening, Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Dawes
surprised the members by serving a
three-course luncheon, which was a
sample meal of some of the "unfired" j
foods Dr. Dawes has been experiment- i
ing for more than two and a half
years. Assorted nuts, cereals, honey,
vegetables and fruits were used in the
menu. Eighteen were present and all
greatly enjoyed the unusual meal.
Jackaways Makes Elk Survey
C. A. Jackaways, state game war
den, left Helena last night for Cor
win Springs in the upper Yellowstone
valley of Park county, to make a
of the condition of elk in the
survey
territory of Crevasse mountain which
he will report to the members of the
Montana State Sportsmen's associ
ation when it meets in Helena next
Monday and Tuesday. The open
season on Elk in Park county does
not close until Dec. 20 unless the
commission anticipates an elk slaugh
ter in the event heavy snows and
severe winter weather drives the
animals out of the park boundary
down into the valley, when an early
closing of the season may be ordered.
Sympathy for Andy Gump
Sympathy for Andy Gump, the
comic supplement character who re
cently failed in the combined mirror
and hair brush industry through the
perfidious double-crossing tactics of
J. Ambrose Hepwing upon whom the
great inventor was relping for a sup
ply of bristles, without which the hap
less Andy found it was just as hard to
produce hair brushes as it would be
to produce Hamlet without the intro
duction of the Melancholy Dane, was
the piece de resistance at the regular
weekly noonday luncheon of the Ro
tary club held Tuesday. The proposed
resolutions of sympathy for Mr. Gump
prepared and read by John Fab
P. C. Waite gave a splendid
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talk on insurance problems. Rev.
Alex. Muirden, of Helena, also spoke.
Attractive Display Signs
Two of the most attractive street
display signs anywhere in the entire
state of Montana have been erected
the lot at the corner of Main and
Willson by August H. Lake, Bozeman
painter and sign artist. Both boards
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are full circus poster size and are set
at an angle so that they are in full
view of perestrians or auto drivers
approaching that corner from any di
rection. One of the signs was painted
in oil colors for the Story Motor Sup
ply, whose place of business is at the
northeast corner of Main and Grand.
The other is being used for publicity
purposes by Mr. Lake, who offers it
for sale to the first comer who realizes
the advantage of out-door publicity
in its most attractive form. The
signs are really works of mural art,
being framed in white, with top cor
nice bearing the name of the maker in
white wood lettering and the bot
tom bordered with an attractive green
lattice. The plot in front of the signs
will be seeded to grass in the spring.
The signs conform to the most modern
display signs now in use in the most
progressive communities, and are the
same as required by law in California
and other up-to-date commonwealths,
the cities and counties of which re
quire, by law, signs of a certain given
artistic standard and structural
strength. Mr., Lake recently com
pleted several dominated pedistal
signs for the Ketterer filling station
which have created a large measure
of favorable comment.
BOZEMAN CITY MANAGER
FRED M. BROWN IS TO BE
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has been acting as deputy in the of
fices of the county treasurer and
county assessor, and that Mr. Davis
has signified his intention of accept
ing the proffered position.
Mr. Brown, who is a native of the
city of Bozeman, and who served Gal
latin county as surveyor for 12 years,
before engaging in business for him
self three years ago, is said to have
more friends and fewer enemies than
any man who could possibly have been 1
selected for the responsible office of
city manager. That he will make a
good, square, impartial, efficient and
progressive city official is the un
qualified opinion of all those who know
him here and who have followed his
public career with interest and satis
faction.
LIVINGSTON LAWYER
UP FOR DISBARMENT
E. M. NILES IS CHARGED WITH
MALPRACTICE AND CRIMES
OF MORAL TURPITUDE
Charged with deceit, malpractice
and crimes involving moral turpitude,
E. M. Niles, a prominent Livingston
attorney, former Park county attorney
and an unsuccessful candidate for
republican nomination in the primary
election of last year for the judgeship
of the Sixth Judicial district in which
Judge Albert P. Stark, now associate
justice of the supreme court was nomi
nated and elected, will have to face the
supreme court in Helena on December
24. the day before Christmas, to show
why he should not be forever
cause
disbarred from the practice of law in
the state of Montana.
Attorney Niles came to Montana
about twelve years ago from Minne
sota where he is said to have borne an
excellent reputation,
membered that his former law part
p. W. Inskeep, also from Minne
It will be re
ner,
sot a, committed suicide over a year
by taking a dose of sodium cya
ago
nide in the kitchen of his home in
Livingston when he learned that the
officers were after him, armed with
a warrant for his arrest on a charge
of his appropriating funds entrusted
It was said at the time
to his care,
that Mr. Niles was himself a heavy
loser as the result of the defalcations
of his former partner.
Charges against Niles have been
filed by Judge John A. Matthews, of
Townsend, former associate justice of
the supreme court, who had been ap
pointed by the court to investigate
the charge against him.
Chief Justice Lew L. Callaway
signed the order requiring Niles to ap
before the court on December
pear
24 to show cause why his certificate
to practice law should not be revoked,
his name stricken from the roll of at
torneys of the state and why he should
not be forever disbarred from the
practice of law in Montana.
The complaint, which consists of
nine specifications, charges that Niles
has been guilty of violation of his
oath, of his duties and obligations as
attorney and counsellor at law, and
of deceit, malpractice and crimes in
volving moral turpitude. There are
also several specific charges that Niles
obtained funds through deceit and
wrongfully converted money of his
clients to his own use.
The specific charges against Niles
the period of sixteen years.
cover
from 1906 to 1922, both inclusive. Ic
is specifically charged that he wrong
fully appropriated to his own
moneys obtained from clients and es
tates ranging in suras from $50, al
leged to have been obtained by de
ceit from a Chinese, to $2,673.68, al
leged to have been unlawfully obtain
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FARMERS MAY COPY A. C. M. PROTEST
BY PAYING TAXES ON "NET" BASIS
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Helena Paper Says the Lates Effort of the Big Mining and Power
Interests in Montana to Fix Their Own Assessment Figures Be
• fore Their Taxes Are Paid May Be Followed in the Future by the
Farmers to Hold Down Their Taxes.
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The Montana Record Herald, of i
Helena, in its issue of last Friday, I
says:
From its Butte Hill metals mine
property in Butte the Anaconda Cop
per Mining company produced 2,280,
661 tons of ore for the year beginning
June 1, 1922, and ended May 31, 1923,
and also 1,289,040 tons of tailings, all
of which had a total valuation of $29,
931,122.83, according to the report of
the company on its net proceeds of
this one mine submitted to the state
In arriving at the amount of net
proceeds on which the Anaconda com-1
pany was to pay a metals mine license
tax the state board permitted the
company to deduct a total of 26,994,
380.15 for costs of upkeep of the mine
board of equalization.
and reduction works in Anaconda, and
also costs of producing this amount
of ore, but because the board refused j
to permit the company to deduct $70,
622.61 paid for insurance and also j
$150,685.86 paid for taxes on the re- j
duction works, the company started 1
a suit in court a few days ago, pro- j
testing the payment of all of the an- !
nual metals mine license tax. !
Farmers May Copy Plan
Since the Anaconda Copper Mining
company has taken this attitude re
port has been current that farmers
to some extent in Montana will take
the same attitude and will protest the
for
taxes they are required to pay
stored grain, because they have not
on
been permitted to deduct items
presenting cost of production and
also items paid for taxes and in
before the assessed valuation
The farmers claim
re
surance
is arrived at.
that the example set by the big min
ing company is an idea that never
had occurred to them, but aver that
it is a practice that might as ^well
ed from Public Administrator J . F.
Leighton, a Livingston flour and feed
dealer. The specifications drawn by
the special counsel for the supreme
court allege that Niles forged a pro
misory note for $500 and variously
guilty of sharp practices in the
handling of monies confided to him
was
in trust, mismanaged estates
which he was attorney and by false
representations secured possession of
which he refused to restore
money
to the rightful owners.
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be followed generally, contending
there should be no favorites when
it comes time to shoulder the Mon
In refusing to permit the deduction
of $70,622.61 for taxes and $150,
685.86 paid for insurance on the re
duction works plant from the net
proceeds, on the claim that those
tana tax burden.
items represented cost of producing
ore taken from the mine in Butte,
the slate board fixed $2,978,742.68 as
the total amount of net proceeds,
making the annual license tax $44,
682.14. The Anaconda company took
the same attitude regarding its net
proceeds on the Emma mine, another
property in Butte.
The State's Figures
The farmers now are taking the at
fcitude that if the Anaconda Copper
Mining company and the Montana
Power company is to continue to fix
its own assessment figures before its
taxes are paid, they will follow the
example set by those big corpora
tiens and propose to deduct costs for
production of stored grain, including
items for insurance, before they
settle their annual tax bills in *ull.
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SHERIFF JIM SMITH
FINDS SECURITIES
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say they are the most expensive and
most highly tempered tools they had
ever seen. The outfit consisted of
gauges, torch, faucetts and piping of
one of the latest model acetylene out-1
fits, the tank having been left in Salt
Lake: a number of chisels and case
hardened punches; wire clippers and
ropes; cartridges and dynamite fuse
caps and short and long pieces of fuse;
medicated tape used to tape up the
cracks in safe doors for the reception
of the nitro-glycerine, or "soup;" au
tomatic torch lighters, and other tools
and apparatus the exact use of which
are known only to the men that
handled them and to officers familiar
with the method and mode of opera
tion of bank robbers.
Before leaving Salt Lake, Sheriff
Smith had to handle one of the prison
ers, "One-Eye Dyer" rather roughly.
as the fellow showed a disposition to
give the officer trouble if his pug
nacious attitude had not been prompt-1
ly curbed.
When examination and finger
printed at the county jail by Under
sheriff Orvill Jones, assisted by Dep
ty Patterson, the men gave their de
scriptions as follows;
George Dyer, aged 51 years. Born
in Washington state. His left eye
is gone, it haying been learned that
he sometimes uses a glass eye to make
his identification more difficult. He
gave his occupation as bricklayer. He
said he had been a convict in the
hit ;•' t
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Montana State penitentiary, but was
behavior some time
j paroled for good
| ago. He had also served terms in the
i state prisons of Colorado and Ore
gon. In Salt Lake he went under the
j alias of George Palmer, until he was
i kidded out of the misrepresentation
-1 by Sheriff Smith,
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; born at Provo, Wash. He is a boiler
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maker by trade, and is married. His
; hair is gray and he is partly bald. He
; * s ^ ve six anc * three-quarter*
j mrii in height.
i Tom Martin, the youngest of the
1 four, gave his occupation as miner
He said he frequented pool halls and
S soft drink parlors. He was bom in
I Springville, Utah, and is six feet,
Frank Warren ,aged 45 years, was
, three-quarters of an inch in height,
i An examination of his body disclosed
several gun shot wounds,
a
five feet,
Married, bur. said
in Salt Lake but had left for the
Adolph Mechler, aged 35 years, is
native of Philadelphia, Pa, He ia
seven inches in height,
nis wife bad lived
east, where he did not know. He said
he was a lace peddler, and it is
thought by the officers that it was
he who found the "marks" as bancs
that are thought easy to rob are
called, on his trips through the
country.
When searched at Salt Lake Dyer
had 8150 in cash and a brand new
sport model automobile. Warren had
$5. which the other prisoners at the
county jail "kangarooed" him out of
<>n his first day's visit at
Smith. Mechler had $40 on his per
was in Bozeman working with W. S,
Gordon on the case for the Bankers'
association. Other arrests, especially
of one of the ringleaders of the gang
I who made his getaway when
heard of the arrest of his companions,
j
i es will be brought here against the
f our men, and also against Coffron
Hotel
son, while the biggest bank roll cf
all was held by Martin, the yoimg
est of the four men.
Detective Henry, from the Chicago
office of the Bums Detective agency.
are expected almost any day. at
which time formal and specific charg
from Havre, where the first arrests
and Loranger, who were brought
back to Bozeman by Sheriff Smith
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in the case were made.