The Bozeman courier., January 09, 1924, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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The Bozeman Courier
PUBLISHED IN THE FAMOUS GALLATIN VALLEY
THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF GALLATIN COUNTY
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Established
Phone
1871
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Published Every Wednesday Afternoon at No. 43 West Main Street,
BOZEMAN, MONTANA
REPUBLICAN COURIER COMPANY
Entered in the Postoffice at Bozeman, Montana, as Second Class
Matter Under the Act of March 3, 1879
SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL — PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
$2.00 Six Months
One Year
$ 1 . 0 «
Three Months
$ .5«
GREENER PASTURES" ONLY A THEORY
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That the expression.
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greener pastures beyond" is merely a
theory, especially in the matter of the periodic or spasmodic
migration of Montana residents to California, and that men with
good, or even fair jobs, in Montana are far better off to stay at
home rather than to walk the nice, snow-free streets of a warmer
clime without a dime in their pockets or a job to go to each day,
is very convincingly shown in a letter received last week by the
Denton Recorder from Albert Lewis, a resident of Denton, who
went to Long Beach, Calif., in the hopes of bettering his con
dition, but who found that things were not as rosy as they are
painted in the expensive. ''$2.50 per inquiry" literature of the
California publicity association.
Work is said to be so scarce in Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle, Long
Reach, San Diego, and many other Pacific coast cities, that no
matter how well qualified a man may be educationally, he has
to file his application weeks in advance in order to be in line for
rr, . .. . —. ,
That section of the country IS merely
overcrowded and will continue be for
even a ditch digging job.
a long
time to come, especially in view of the persistent preference given
in employment to "native sons."
Here is Mr. Lewis' letter:
This is a very nice place to loaf, pitch horse
shoes and play croquet, but it all gets stale. I don't
think I would like it steady. The people are arriving
here by the thousands every week now and about half
of them are looking for work or something to do to pay
their way, but there is absolutely nothing here for a
laboring man, and this fact should be advertised through
the east and middle west in order to head off that rush
as there will be hard times for them here before spring.
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WE NEED LESS OF EUROPE'S FILTH
A great deal of caustic comment is printed regarding the
proposed restrictions of immigration, registration of aliens and the
attempt to secure quality rather than quantity of incomers from
the old world. Their arguments, boiled down, usually read "Ameri
ca should hold out a welcome to all ; the country is big enough for
all ; we are all sons and daughters of immigrants ; immigrants
made this country ; we need immigrants for labor; to restrict or
register is Czaristic, not American.
It is true we are all ''sons and daughters" of immigrants; it
is true that the immigrants we have had have done much to de
velop this country. But as times change, so must methods. When
we needed pioneers, farmers, laborers, tillers of the soil, we re
ceived the best Europe had to offer. Not often does such an
opportunity come; a new country, a new' freedom, land for the
asking. Of course, the yeamanry of Europe seized the chance
and the land, came, went west, grew up with the country, helped
make America, America
But today good land cannot be had for the asking. The
pioneer days are over American civilization has grown com
plicated. It takes more than willing hands and a stout heart
to succeed here now. There must be a measure of education as
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well. Meanwhile, Europe is an impossible place for the diseased,
the ignorant, the uneducated, the vicious, to live. The best equip
ped have none too easy a time; the worst equipped want to get
out—out anywhere—but especially "out to America.
We still need, want and welcome good men and women, who
can and do become good Americans. But the time has passed
when we can get them only by opening wide the door. The door
must be shut, to keep out those who hurt, not help, the nation, anc
only put a little ajar for that thinning stream of the best kind of
men and w T omen, who are able to take advantage of the modern op
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portunities of modern America, as their forebears were able to
take advantage of the opportunities of American pioneer days.
WHY CHANGE?
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Henry Ford never made a statement that raised him higher
in the estimation of intelligent Americans than when he said
am for Coolidge." His name has been bandied about by radicals,
third party proponents, and other disturbers of the country's po
litical peace as one of their own number—a potential leader who
would allow himself to be used to destroy conservative government.
But it seems that those agitators have put a wrong appraisal on
the Ford character. His support of President Coolidge stamps
him as opposed to the harebrained schemes of most of the Fore
flatterers. He has refused to be cajoled by their soft words, anc
has recognized that prosperity for the automobile business de
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pends upon prosperity of the country as a whole, which, in turn,
relies upon conservative government as administered according
to the Coolidge standard. So Mr. Ford laconically remarks, "Why
change ?"
THE SAME EVERYWHERE
During a recent address by Lady Astor, a native of our own
, state of Virginia, socialists in her audience created a boister
ous disturbance under the guise of "heckling,
trick of our socialist friends. They break up meetintg» held by
others, but would promptly resort to violence to expel any person
who interfered with their own meetings. Socialism ia Ragland
follows the same practices it does in the United States.
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TIMELY TIPS FOR
INCOME TAXPAYERS
INCOME TAX IN NUTSHELL.
WHO? Single persons who had
net income of $1,000 or more or
gross income of $5.000 or more,
and married couples who had net
income of $2,000 or more or gross
income of $5,000 or more must file
returns
WHEN? The filing period is from
January 1 to March 15, 1924.
WHERE?
Collector of internal
revenue for the district in which
the person lives or has his princi
pal place of business.
HOW? Instructions on Form 1040
A and Form 1040; also the law
and regulations.
WHAT?
tax on the first $4,000 of net in
come in excess of the personal
exemption and credits for depend
ents. Eight per cent normal tax
on balance of net income. Surtax
from 1 per cent to 50 per cent on
net incomes over $6,000 for the
year 1923.
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Four per cent normal
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If you are single and support in
your home one or more relatives over
whom you exercise family control, you
are the head of a family and titled,
in your income-tax return for the year
1923j to the game exemptions granted
TIPS TO TAXPAYERS
No. 3.
a married person. These are $2,500 if
the net income was $5,000 or less
jand $2,000 if the net income was
more than $5,000. In addition the
head of a family may claim a $400;
credit for each person dependent upon
him for chief support if such person
is under 18 years of age or incap-i
able of self-support because mentally
or physically defective.
For example, a son supports in his
home an aged mother and two sisters
14 and 16 years of age. His net in
come for 1923 was $3,000. He is en
«'led to an exemption of $2,500 plus
a $400 credit for each dependent, a
total of $3,700. While he pays no
tax. he must file a return, because
net income was in excess of $1,000.
An exemption as the head of a fam
Several inches of snow feil in Boze- i
and vicinity Tuesday night, the ;
decided
Farmers are
ily can be claimed by only one mem
ber of a household.
(Continued Next Week.)
man
precipitation following a
rise in température.
taking advantage cf the snow and
the warmer weather to haul their
wheat to the local elevators and to
the railroad yards for shipment. A
large percentage of the wheat is be
in* hauled to town loose in wapon
boxes, although quite a lot of it is
sacked.
POULTRY SHOW JANUARY 22-24
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(Continued from Page One.)
those in charge of the show if the
entry blanks are sent in as early as
possible. Entries close January 21,
day before the show. As far as pos -
sible the exhibitors should send in
their entries at least three days be-j
fore the show. This enables the man-i
agement to provide coops, catalogue
the entries, and make the necessary
preparations in advance.
The following is a list of the
sweepstake and special premiums
offeied by the merchants of Bozeman
that will be awarded to Gallatin,
county exhibitors only:
Sweepstakes
H. B. McCay company
will give $ 10.00 in
merchandise for
the best pen in show, any breed, and
$5.00 in merchandise for best cock
Flint-Field Hardware company will
100-pound sack Blatchford'a
erel, any breed.
give one
Egg Mash for the pen entry coming
from the greatest distance within
Gallatin county to the show.
Montana Flour Mills company will,
give one 100 -pounds sack Ceretana
Scratch Feed for the pen laying the.
greatest number of eggs during the
three days of the show.
J. M. Sawyer company will give
Airolite lantern, value $7.50 to
one
the exhibitor having the highest
number of exhibits in the show.
Speeihl Premiums
Best pen Single Comb White Leg •
Korns—Gallatin Lumber company of- j
fers $5.00 in merchandise.
Best Single Comb White Leghorn
Cockerel—Holloway's Clothing com j
pany offers a $5.00 hat.
Best pen Rose Comb White Leg
horns — Jacob's Costume Shop will
clean and press two suits of clothes.
Best pen Brown Leghorns—Cope
land Lumber company offers $6.00 in
merchandise.
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—Bozeman Krat Market offers one
Buff Orphiagtons
Wagner Brothers offer $5.00 ia «er
Best young pen Buff Orphmgtons
ham.
Best aid
'fcuukse.
Best pen White Orphington —Jame
son & Vaughn company offer $5.00
in merfhandise.
Best White Orphington cockerel— j
offers three
pack«*«, Amonium Sulpha* fertU-i
Blac k Orphingtons—Army
L. K. Pence company
Best pen
& Navy Clearing House offers $5.00
in merchandise.
White Rhode
Best Single Comb
'Island Reds— Rœchers' Drug com-:
pany will give $5.00 in merchandise.
Best Single Comb Rhode Island,
; Red male bird—The Hub offers $3.00
i in merchandise.
Best pen Rose Comb Rhode Island
Reds—Independent Meat Market of-1
: fers S4.00 in cash.
Best Rose Comb Rhode Island male
bird—The Gallatin Grocery company
offers 25 pounds Blanchard Pure.
Dried Buttermilk,
Best pen Barrt-d Rocks — Orton
Brothers offer $5.00 worth of Ye
cords.
Best White Rock male bird—Palace
Clothing company offer $5.00 in mer
chandise. *
Hollingsworth's Specialty House of
Best pen WTiite Wyandottes—J. L.
Kctterer offers 10 gallons Energy
gasoline.
Best pen Buff Plymouth Rock;
fer $3.00 in merchandise.
Rest White Wyandotte ma]»» bird—j
Best display Wyandottes, varieties
other then white—Dorsh & Greenfield
com Pany, Butte, Montana, offer one
2-gallon■Andrew Top Fill fountain
j R ®"î tom^Lv otter*0™ V "^und
Rea & company offer one 5- pound
; can Chase & Sanborn Seal Bran
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The Oliver Stout Hardware company
offer one casserole, value $4.35.
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0651 P aid Bronze turkeys— Kram
^ 3 offer one $5,50 meal ticket,
Best P air any breed other than
Bronge Sanitary Market offers one
s ^ ab bacon, x'alue $3.00. j
Largest turkey—Gallatin Milk and
roduce ( o, > offer $2.50 in cash,
Best pair Toulouse ge*-se Main
Cafe otters $3.00 in cash.
Best pair geese any breed other
*ban Toulouse Gallatin V Jk and
Produce company otter $2.50 :n cash,
Best pair ducks, any breed—Ken
^ N .® bl *Jf ,mb " C ° r ' Pan>
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B«rt pair Cpons-Bozeman Gr.ll
; offers $3.00 in cash.
Best pen Minorcas Dorsh an<j|
Greenfield offer one gallon Andrew s |
Ton Fill fountain.
Best pen Ancona* - Owenhouse
Hardware company offer one U-,
pound bucket of Lee s Egg Mash ,
Best Anconas male bird Owen- j
house Hardware company offer on? j
25-pound sack Blatchford's Egg
Mash.
Best Display Hamburgs — Owen
bouse Hardware company offer one
three-section chick feeder.
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DANNER SEEMS TO
BE LOSING NERVE
(Continued from Page One.)
I ln shaking to The Courier man |
, several weeks ago he said, among'
I other things, m>ostly reminiscences,,
' that he felt so sure of his ability as
an auto repair man that he woula
be willing, on a wager, to take a
monkey wrench and an old Ford ear
1 and work his way from the Atlantic
coast to the Pacific, leaving the start
ing point without a cent in his pocket
and airiving at his destination with j
a bank roll.
Feels His Impending Fate |
Lately he has become more reticent !
an d says but H tt i e , turning his head
a t lb e approach of visitors and
avoiding their glances. In shaking
hands the other evening at parting
with three young ladies who have
taken an interest in his cm, from a
humanitarian point of view and who
have been trying
means of securing a commutation of
his death sentence to one of life im
prisonment, he held their hands long
er than usual and said, with a sad
ness that he had not before shown:
to devise some
"Well, I'll say goodbye I probably
won't see you again on this earth.
He still maintains his innocence.
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"I've always had faith and hope,'' he
said, "but as the time draws near,
the thought of it nearly has me
down. There is no way that I can
prove to the jury,
the people
here, that I am innocent, so
what is to be will have to be.
know I have not
or
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committed
any
crime, or did any wrong that would
make me fear my God, so 1 am not
afraid to go. There is so little in this
life, anyway, that things can't be any
worse in the next life than they
Be good girls, and do the
right thing, and I will meet you all
in Heaven.
The farewell was, indeed, a sad
on«, Danner's words and demeanor
being such as to bring tears to tbe
visitors' eyes and heart throbs at the
thought of the grewsome fate which
awaited the condemned man within
he^e.
are
e few short days. Even the jail offiei
al had to turn his head away at tbe
sad words of parting, and he *ould
not hide the tear that dropped
bidden, to his hand ac he reathed
far the knob to opera the cell doar to
an
permit the visitors to silently and
sadly depart from the secluded cell
room that seemed to them more like
a mausoleum than a place of human
habitation.
When asked for her v.ews on the ;
Danner case, a local woman who was
a member of a party tnat visited j
the condemned man in his cell last
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week said:
One Life for Three
"Like every' other human being,:("
especially a woman who abhors every
form of killing in either man or
beast, I cannot but feel a certain
sympathy for Danner and genuine
sorrow over the fact that he must
p a y the penalty of his crimes with
his own life. More acute seems to
be my feeling of sympathy after I
have seen him and talked with him;
but this feeling seemc to disappear
when the heinousness of his crimes
comes into thoughts. When I
my
think of the agony of suspense suf
fared by Mrs. Sprouse all during the ,
efternoon and evening of the day of
tbe double murder, nervously and >
'impatiently awaiting the return of <
her husband whose body during that I
time, was lying along the river bank i
with the entire upper part of his
head tom away with a shot
fired at close range by his traveling
gun
companion whom he trusted and in
whom ho had placed such implicit
my thoughts of sym
pathy turns away from Danner rml
goes to the bereaved wife.
| "Then, when my thoughts turn to
j the fiendishly cruel and inhuman
method used by Danner in killing the
i who , was .T? t ® become a
I mother, as he said for the purpose
j of 'keeping her mouth shut,' and let
confidence,
fing her 'know where John is now,'
by striking her twice from behind
with the hand axe and then, to make 1
assurance of death doubly sure and to j
stop the throat-trurgling of her death j
throbs, binding her neck round and
round with a piece of rawhide whang-j
" Ynu •<* "«• h « w > ™ »*>out the
Danner case. 1 can only sav. in the
„ ht of a „ the circumstances that it
„ a Rham e he has only one life to
ejvc , n return f or the three human
string, I can only hold Danner in the j
most abject abhorrence. Even the
Sprouses' little dog, when he missed
his masters and whined plaintively ;
for thpir lost companionship,
killed with the hand axe by a blow, ■
also delivered from behind.
was
,j y he so rathIess so cowardly and
so fiendishly snuffed out. ! ' head :
AttonieJr Genera , Rankin . s matching !
d ,. nouncenlent ot the accused murder ,
cr in the distrjct court> and at the
j though his arraignment
somewhat seV ere.
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was î
I am now con
vinced that no one but a cowardly
cur and a guilty criminal of the low
est type cou ]d jj ave sat ag j) anner
Rat unTnove{ j unaffected and apoar -1
lently unperturbed while Mr. Rankin
branded him with all the most op
probrious appellations on the criminal!
calendar, ranging from thievery and
b«otle KE ina to rape and murder of'
both the living and the unborn. That's
w hat I think of the Danner case."
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on y as B anner 8 manner suf
* 3 ( ' orn PM e change, but his phy
SKa a PP Par ?noe is noticeably differ
< ru e ^ as ^ own 80 Iat that he re
J" a ^ ked about being unable to make
ot ^ bis
en s belt meet. His face
(ff 1 , la%e a ^ S0 ^°* ten so fleshy
. a * e ' 3Ve almost the
;° e»ng iJIen or bloatad. The pris
pal or of ashy grayness which he
lV r V posseted, has deepened, and
1 C1PC HlS eyeS h&Ve
^ ^ y lntensifie( > th eir glassy ap
pearance a " d rendered his counten
anyt " ins: but pleasant to look
* G reR , ult ' no dou bt, of the intense
9tra ' n UndCT WWch he must now
appearance
entl
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his
Sheffield
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Sheffield silver is not as fine as sterling, as some peopi
believe. But fine Sheffield is extra good silver plate, rich i r
appearance and most serviceable for constant use.
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Hallmark Sheffield is the highest grade — a heavy p ^
mg of pure silver over à nickle silver base. It is not easily
dented and wears extremely well—the best quality in ^r«.
terial and finish, but low in price.
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It it an excellent wedding present.
Vegetable Dish .
Bread Tray .J...
Sandwich Tray ......
Water Pitcher ..
Meat Platters « ..
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..$10.00 to $20.00
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. 6.00 to 16.00
11.00 to 26.00
- 15.00 to 35.00
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mg. Even though h* ^
other things it was pl ain to u
that his mind subconsciously
to his impending fate, at which* «
he c ' as P bis bancs and lurr^
h,s head, revealing m.,r.
ever, from a side glance, the *?'
look in his eyes that
and utter hopeless ne- .
The balcony m the des
has bee n st re n gt h t r, ed.
been tested, a new ring h
in position in the < eili
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end I
t'• and k
' jail off a v * l |
..'ossible
Lfi for th»
other precaution taken
to prevent accident
up in the arran gerne;
ecution.
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Public To lie Excluded
Although Sheriff
been besieged by
asking for permis
hanging, he has been obliged • * ay
fuse them all. because of lack of r ^
to accommodate any
U*
nedfl
Smith
5*
ast
vie»
than
few court officials u r t:.
wish to view the ext ution. »ht
provided that two;..
citizens, two doctors and a mir
be present.
The morbidly
will have to satisfy
nan
city,
Ma
lan ■
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cur; u
.irn
Mil
news of the event
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'ho
of the newspapers, f
who are compelled to
be unwilling to 'cl!
see a human being bar. < ;
As usual, the exact
hanging will not o • i
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Pal
j aw provides that ft f ai
any time between
night of Thursday, J:
midnight or. the ni *t
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The execution is the :
place in Gall-itin county n
f r,
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years ago, who was h:
murder of a fell.
c ook or meat cutter in
rant, who he killed by
head wide open
l a y on the meat block
ch inaman said he was zlad tode.eir |
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a L r vo !"° t h '
f.^ " k ft JtA
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ing that of a Chinaman, u 1
ut mm
n.c
countnnu:.
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MrJ
,hl ttir;
with a cleaver »r
nit
Ho 1
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The murder was the reMilt of aT
war, in which the Chir.amai
commanded by hi? superio
a bout the death of the
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im
' tc -ThJ
h n
co>: for
unknown but unforgivable wrorr
on, I
How the Chinaman Mr.l
Before he went to hi? death *
*d tl
,
»« P lace - T!1 * execntimi w», h T ^
^ î 0 "" ^
? y xa k!', B d, , -re]
hmlt hehmd a high fence I
off the view from the awl OT
which did not prevent a nun *#T^_ r
boys from scaling it and viewanzs
execution. One of the boy?, "
grown to manhood. ?aid that he
ed until the black h' or. wa?
over the Chinaman's head. wher. r * \
rks,
Mr.
ddr
" b * at * toT ™' g|
3nce on 'î 16 T, y rr
domiclle -
i The hanff ' m ' of , th< ' 1 hmaMC
not 7 " ! r TTÜ-»
I eV<,n for the '''T"' TT »
■ custom a ry trap cW-.which drops«
Ms the condemned man do^ ^
j requisite four feet, there was a ' jjjjj
scaffold with a protrudimr an
heavy timber on which a milley«Œ|
had been fasten'd. The rhiias^a
stood on the ground. One end d
rope was fastened around hi? «
Tor
•us
nts
w'th the usual hangman'?
held with a smaller rone. I
sheriff pulled, the small ^ nh&l
eement ?ack <l r °PP €( l anfl the C nt |
man went up. The counter w i a J
was not sufficiently heavy to ' . ^ |
his neck, and he died of ?trarrj a
tion after about fifteen minute« r j
the other was attached to a
cert
sack of hardened -»ement, ?uspfq
about ten feet from the crrouf.'i
pension.
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