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FIRST SECTION The Bozeman Courier 57TH YEAR FIRST SECTION BOZEMAN, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1927 PAGES 1 TO 8 NUMBER 7 'BOZEMAN OATEWAY' TO YELLOWSTONE WILL BE ESTABLISHED JUNE 20 BY N. P. , SWEET PEA CITY TO SHARE PARK RAIL TOURIST TRAFFIC WITH GARDINER—GALLATIN WAY WILL BE FEATURED Decision to make Bozeman one of its entrances to Yellowstone park and to designate the Sweet Pea city as the "Bozeman Gate way" to Wonderland was announced this week by the Northern Pacific Railway company through A. B. Smith, passenger traffic manager at St. Paul. The new park tourist service, by buses from Bozeman via the West Gallatin canyon to West Yellowstone and thence to Old Faithful inn, will be instituted by the Northern Pacific June 20, when the national playground is opened for the season. Thus Bozeman will share with Gardiner, the railway's northern entrance, rail tourist traffic to and from the park. Tickets will be sold entering Yellowstone via Bozeman and leaving it by way of Cody, Gardiner, or West Yellowstone, or in by any of those gateways and out through Bozeman. operated daily between Chicago and Bozeman, the westbound arriving here early in the morning. Park tourists will be brought uptown for breakfast, and will leave at 7:55 a. m. for West Yellowstone in the big yellow buses. On the return trip the buses will reach Bozeman at 5:45 p. m., and shortly afterwards dinner will be served. At 7 p. m. the tourists will be taken to the N. P. station, where sleeping cars will be parked. Official Statement The official statement issued by Passenger Traffic Manager Smith of the Northern Pacific and released for publication Wednesday afternoon follows; "The Northern Pacific and the Burlinton railways henceforth will serve all the principal gateways to Yellowstone park, including Gardiner, Cody, Bozeman, and West Yellow stone. "Bozeman, as the head of the new Gallatin canyon road to Yellowstone park, hereafter is to be designated officially as a gateway. Horace M. Albright, superintendent of Yellow stone Park, officials of the Yellow stone Park Transportation company, and others have concurred in the es tablishment of this new park termi nal. "For a quarter of a century it has been the dream of Bozeman to be come a Yellowstone park gateway. At last, through the co-operation of the state highway commission, the Gallatin county commissioners, the United States Forest service, the United States bureau of public roads, and the National Park service, a fine scenic highway has been built up the West Gallatin canyon to Yellowstone park. Now Bozeman's dream has come true. Details of Service "Beginning with the Yellowstone opening date, 20, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington will operate through Pullmans daily between Chicago and Bozeman, the westbound sleepers arriving at the Bozeman depot early in the morning. Yellowstone park buses will carry passengers up town for breakfast. They will leave Bozeman for West Y ellowstone at 7:55 a. m., heading down the scenic Gallatin Canyon road, famous among the mountain roads of Montana. The Montana State college at Bozeman; the rich, irrigated farm lands of the Gallatin valley, and the a. spectacular Gallatin canyon will be points of scenic interest along the way. The Spanish Peaks, snow-clad, and the Gallatin range of the Rockies are in sight, and the way lies past many cattle ranches, dude ranches, fishing resorts, hunting lodges, and other outing places. The road winds along the West Gallatin river for miles. "Passengers will proceed into the Park via West Yellowstone to Old From there, standard park tours to the prin cipal scenic attractions of Yellow stone will be made, according to the preference of tourists." Faithful for the first night. $230,090 VALUE BAXTER ESTATE Two hunderd thirty thousand dol lars is the estimated value of the es tate of Robert A. Baxter, who died January 10. Robert G. Baxter, his son, is the sole heir. Money on deposit in banks amounts (Continued on page eight) <3 a JOINT COMMITTEE ON COUNTY AFFAIRS TO MEET TONIGHT A regular meeting of the Joint Committee on County Affairs has ' been arranged for this (Friday) eve ning at Three Forks. Dinner will be served at 7 o'clock and the meeting will follow immediately thereafter. A program on attracting and handling tourist traffic and on good roads will be up for discussion. The dinner and the meeting are open to all interested, but reserva tions for the dinner at 75 cents a plate must be made, either by tele phone or by personal call, at the Boze man Chamber of Commerce office. Officers of the chamber believe that these meetings are valuable to the county as a whole and that much good will result. DEATH SUMMONS VALLEY RANCHER C. H. Sievert Victim of Heart Disorder of Long Standing —Funeral Saturday C. H. Sievert, 84 years of age, a valley rancher, died Sunday evening after a long illness with heart trou ble and hardening of the arteries. Funeral services will be held '.n this city at 2 o'clock Saturday after noon. Burial will be in the family lot in the Bozeman cemetery, beside the body of his wife who died here in 1925. Mr. Sievert was a native of Ger many. He came to the United States about 60 years ago, and in 1888 jour neyed from Iowa to Bozeman. Since that time he had been engaged in farming. Two sons, L. F. end Otto Sievert of Bozeman, and a daughter, Mrs. Amelia Barney of Huntington Park, Calif., survive him. Mrs. Barney will come here for the funeral. NEW MILLINERY DEPARTMENT AT HOLLINGSWORTHS At Hollingsworth's in the near fu ture Mrs. Frances Bray, an experi enced milliner, will open a millinery department which will be one of the most modern and completely stocked in Montana, it was announced yes terday. Mrs. Bray was for seven years in the millinery business at Forsyth, and previous to that had had other valu able experience. After being in Boze man a, week arranging necessary pre liminary details, Mrs. Bray left Wed nesday evening for Minneapolis, Chi cago, and St. Louis on a buying trip. Upon her return installation of the stock will proceed as rapidly as it arrives, and within a short time the department will be ready for open ing. Miss Mary E. Rosenburg, countv superintendent of schools, was report ed Thursday as suffering from a se vere cold. She expects to be able to return U her duties at the superin tendent's office within a few days. Scene During Murder Trial of Rev. F. J. Norris mmm ;V, m s 3 F ; :' «SU Hi * M <; : 0 Hi * w v -v f: 1 I V , m m m Scene In the courtroom at Austin, Texas, during the trial of Rev. Frank 3. Norris for the murder of D. B. Chip pa The accused, pastor of a Port Worth Baptist church, is Indicated by a cross. UNDER vv GASOLINE EURES; GARAGE, CAR BURN Ray Ecton Has Narrow Escape In Accident at Ranch—Suf fers Minor Injuries When a can of gasoline, ignited by a blow torch he was using, explode! in Ray Ecton's garage at his ranch near Amsterdam last Friday morning, Mr. Ecton suffered burns about the face and hands and the garage and the automobile it housed were de stroyed. The loss on the car is partly covered by insurance. So rapidly did the blaze spread that all efforts to subdue them were fruitless, and Mr. Ecton devoted his attention to preventing the spread of the flames to other buildings, in which he was successful. Mr. Ecton considers himself lucky to have es caped death or serious tinjury in the explosion. About two and a half gallons of gasoline were in the can, which was supposed to be tightly covered. BOZEMAN TO BE TEACHERS' HOST OCTOBER 20-22 District Convention of Montana Education Association Will be Held Here Bozeman will be host, on October .20, 21, and 22, to between 500 and 600 teachers and educators who will be here for the western 1 district con vention of the Montana Education association. Decision to hold the district con vention in this city was reached Thursday morning at a meeting of an association district committee of which B. A. Winans of Livingston is president and D. S. Williams, super intendent of Bozeman schools, vice president. The session was attended by I i. E. Hathaway, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, who discussed tentative arrangements. (Continued on Page Eight) Mexican Federal Troops Attacking Leon ■ IPi I, ♦ m ms " * Ms ym. mx>: ■ m fei*:': . Mexicaa federal soldiers firing from a trench al the Catholic rebels. Across the field from this pli road i< lid were the outsld HANGMAN'S ROPE PART OF EVIDENCE IN DIVORCE CASE BUTTE. — When her husband came home peeved and, draping a piece of hangman's rope about her neck, remarked grimly: "It's a shame they hung a good and let some other people live, Mrs. Leona Peoples decided that it was time to file a suit for di vorce. The rope was a piece of that used in fhe execution of Tony Vettere, Butte Murderer, and given to him, William Peeples later admitted in Judge W. E. Carroll's court, by a deputy sher The rope was introduced in evidence by counsel for Mrs. Peo ples. man was iff. VALLEY PROPERTY SELLS FOR $15,000 The C. W. Overstreet ranch one and one-half miles northeast of Sales ville was purchased Saturday by Louis A. Biggs for $15,000. The ranch was owned by Roy M. Keister. Frank W. Leckliter, who recently went into the real estate business here, handled the deal. The property includes 160 acres of good farm land. INFANT SUCCUMBS AT WILSALL HOME The Poor, aged one month, who died last Wednesday at Wilsall was brought to Bozeman Friday and funeral services were held at the West Chapel Satur day afternoon. Burial was in the Bozeman cemetery. George D. Pease, city attqrney, who for the last 30 days had been in Cal ifornia with Mrs. Pease, who is ill, returned to Bozeman last Friday. He reported Mrs. Pease's condition as slightly improved. While in Los An geles Mr., Pease met a number of Montana folk, including "Dinty" Moore, a former editor of The Cour ier, and J. H. (Harrison) Dawes, well known business man of this city. KRAMER'S CAFE CHANGES HANDS Will Be Taken Over February 1 by New Firm, In Which N. P. Said To Be Interested Sale of Kramer's cafe to the Byron Restaurant company was announced last Saturday. The change in man agement will take place February 1. The consideration was not made pub lie. The Byron Restaurant company was organized at Livingston recently by Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Byron and as sociates, one of whom is said to be the head of the Northern Pacific Railway company's dining car ser vice. Mr. Bryon has for some time past managed the N. P.'s lunch room at Livingston, Mrs. Bryon also hav ing been employed there. After February 1 the name "Kram er's" will be dropped and the res taurant will be known as the "Byron Cafe, Inc." It will be conducted un der the personal supervision of Mr. Byron. Mr. Kramer's decision to sell, it is understood, was influenced by the long illness of Mrs. Kramer, who at present ip reported as being in a serious condition. Mr. Kramer will continue the manufacture and dis tribution of tamales, a business he has built up to considerable propor tions. BRATEN HASES NEW QUARTERS Will Move Soon Into Storerooms Formerly Occupied By Jameson-V aughn Al A. (Andy) Braten this week an nounced that he had obtained the quarters at 29 West Main street for merly occupied by the Jameson Vaughn company and will, as soon as necessary alterations and additions are completed, move his stock from his present location in the Bozeman hotel annex. The move, Mr. Braten believes, will (Continued on page eight) SHERIFF MUST PAY RENT IF HE RESIDES AT JAIL But Jailer Can Use Living Rooms There Without Charge, Coun ty Attorney's Opinion Acting upon an opinion prepared by County Attorney Seth F. Bohar% holding that while the living apart ments at the county jail "cannot be used, rent free, by the sheriff residence, they can be so used by the jailer for the purpose of safeguard ing the prisoners and expediting county business", the board of ty commissioners Wednesday author ized Sheriff Frank G. Slaughter to permit Jailer A, D. (Darby) Taylor and Mrs. Taylor to occupy said quar ters rent free. as a coun Approved By Foot County Attorney Bohart's opinion was rendered at the request of both the sheriff and the board of county commissioners. While it is at vari ance, in some respects, with one hand ed down some time ago by the then attorney general, Wellington D. Ran kin, it may be said that Mr. Bohart's findings have been virtually accept ed as his own by the present attorney general, L. A. Foot. In the previous opinion, to which the attention of the board of county commissioners was directed last fall by the state examiner, Mr. Rankin declared that it was his belief "that the board of county commissioners is without authority to permit the sheriff to occupy a part of the county jail as his residence, rent free, and is without authority to furnish light, fuel or water for the sheriff free of charge." Mr. Bohart views the ques tion from a somewhat broader and more practical angle, and his findings have the approval of Mr. Foot. Thus a controversy that has raged since Sheriff Slaughter took office January 3 is apparently settled. The former action of the commissioners in notifying Mr. Slaughter that a rental of $25 monthly would be charged for the living quarters at the jail was based upon the opinion by Mr. Ran kin holding that the donation of such quarters by the county amounted vir tually to an increase of the sheriff's salary, a proceeding in conflict with certain provisions of the state con stitution. Charges Unfounded Published charges that the board was endeavoring to discriminate against Mr. Slaughter were yesterday declared to be without foundation in fact. It was said that several times in the last two or three years Judge B. B. Law of the district court had contended that the county hjd no a to the sheriff, and that when the at torney general s, opinion was last fall brought to the board's attention it was felt that some action must be taken to comply with the declared re quirements of the law. Consequent ly, before the election of November 2, both candidates for the office of sheriff wer e notified that the board contemplated establishing a rental charge for the living quarters at the jail, and on November 1, the day be fore the election, the commissioners unanimously passed an order fixing the rental at $25 a month. In view of these facts it would seem far fetched, it was pointed out, to accuse the board of commissioners or any of its members with attempted dis crimination against the present sher iff. Had Mr. Slaughter's Republican opponent been elected he would have faced the same requirement, it was declared. Bohart's Opinion ' County Attorney Bohart's opinion sets forth that it is obvious that the sheriff must keep someone in charge of the prisoners at all times, and that it is to the interest of Gallatin county that a jailer be on hand night and day, not only to watch the inmates of the jail but to keep the public in contact with the sheriff. It is just as obvious," the opinion continues, "that this cannot be done unless some officer under the sher iff remains in the jail property at all times. ti ♦ * * Therefore, it is the opinion of this office that the apart cannot be by the sheriff j as a residence, but can be used by I the jail er for the purpose of sera and . - tl "It is not this l~t-