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9 \ * -* Courier Ü i. BOZEMAN, MONTANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1927 58TH YEAR NUMBER 2 GIVEN FOUR YEARS, THEN PAROLED IN CARE OF FATHER I I I ■ , j ..... ... rr> j ! Mildred McMillan, Anas 1 andy, Is Grateful for Mercy of Court j —Promises To Be Good Mildred McMillan, alias • Elsie I Tandy, the young woman arrested last. week on a charge of forgery for | passing a check for $25,' signed with 1 the name of Stuart McMillan, on the , Marshall furniture store, entered a 1 plea of guilty when arraigned before Judge B. B. Law in district court | last Friday afternoon and on Monday j was sentenced to serve from four to I eight vears in the state penitentiary s nt Deer Lodge._ Immediately after passing sentence the court, upon good cause being shown, paroled the defendant in care of her father, W. W. Corbett of Fair view, Mont., under agreement that she will remain with her parents for four years. The young woman ac cepted the mercy of the court with evidences of gratitude and left at once for her home. According to her father, she left home when 18 years of age, and later j married Stuart McMillan. Since coming to Bozeman she had posed as the wife of Joe Tandy, cook in a local restaurant. She was first arrested when she passed a check, signed with the name of Mrs. M. A. Griffin of the Michigan block, on the Bozeman pharmacy. Later an information was filed in the Marshall store case. Soon after her incarceration in the county jail, Mrs. McMillan attempted to take her own life by slashing her wrist with a piece of metal taken from her (Continued on Page Twelve) BOZEMAN'S WATER PUNT PROFITABLE The Bozeman City Water works made a gross profit of $26,161.92 dur ing the year ended April 30, 1927, ac cording to figures taken from the an nual report of the Montana Public Service commission; and for success ful administration of its municipally owned system stood fourth among the cities of the state. The plant of the local water works is valued at §441,518.29. and its op erating revenue was $46,465.94 and its operating expense $20,697.97. For the state as a whoie, 53 out of city-owned plants showed an ag gregate gross profit of $401,915.82 for the year, while 19 recorded losses. The Great Falls plant, with equip ment valued at $1,134,940.17, showed the greatest profit. $99,741.48., Hel ena, with §59,290.66, was second, and Billings, with $55,647.58, was third. Fifth place was taken bv Lewistown with a gross profit of $21,527.88. » - The greatest loss for the year was I remitted by Fort Benton, which went into the red $2,979.13. Others re porting a material setback were Stevensville, $2,855.97; Wolf Point, $2,270.31, and Winnett, $2,132.36. Double Road Money For Montana Favored By State's Civic Bodies To show that they approve the movement to induce congress to dou ble the annual appropriation for the construction of trunk highways with in national forests, commercial clubs and chambers of commerce through out Montana are passing resolutions and forwarding them to this state's congressional delegation at Washing ton. It is pointed out that one third of the land area within Montana is re ■■ ■» ■ j ■ ,■ I served by the government for Indian reservations aod national forests and is non-taxable, providing no revenue for roads. Under the present law Montana's share of the total annual appropriation for roads within the national forests is $350,000. This sum is inadequate and makes it al most impossible to connect up the state highways by forest roads and complete them within a reasonable time. Thirteen public land states lo cated in the west are similarly situ ated. Copies of the following resolution are going forward from all civic or ganizations of the type named, to Senators Wajih and Wheeler and Congressmen Leavitt and Evans in Washington: __ "Be it resolved that we join with other organizations of the state of Montana and with organizations of other public land states in request ing the United States congress to in crease the present annual appropria tion of $4,500,000 for the construction of standard highways in national for ests to the sum of $9,000,000." It is understood that Senators V* alsh and Wheeler and Congressman Evans and Leavitt favbr an increased v appropriation but desire to secure the sentiment of the citizens and business men of the state. The forest reserve roaHs are to be built in conformity with the plans prescribed by the U. S. bureau of public roads. MB äse« TWO MEN ACCUSED OF MAKING "BREW PINCHED BY JONES Accused of manufacturing "home brew", Fred Hoppel of the Huffine lane and Bill Starr, who resides near the Tod Stevens ranch north of town were arrested this week by Orville Jones, federal prohibition agent, The two men were .taken before Q eor g e Davenport, United States commissioner, who held them to a actio " of thc fede 2l court - B wait onds were fixed at $500 each, and were furnished. At the Hoppel plac^ according to Officer Jones, about 200 oints of beei and a quantity of material were seized. The arrest there came as a climax of an investigation that be gan a week ago when Jones and an assistant visited the ranch and the latter purchased, it is asserted, about a half case of the brew, A like quantity of beer was seized at the Starr farm, the officer re (porta. *__ __ COUNTY ENDORSES JEFFERSON ROUTE Commissioners Urge Highway Body to Include It in Pro gram For Next Year Endorsement of the Jefferson can yon route between Three Forks and Whitehall, on the Yellowstone trail, was given Monday by the board of county commissioners at a meeting with the representatives of the dif ferent road committees of Gallatin county. After adjournment of the session, the commissioners «addressed a letter to the state highway commission at Helena recommending the proposed route and urging that it be included in the 1928 program. In part the let ter said: "So far as the board is concerned, we consider this road (Jefferson can yon routg) a very important highway, whiçji should be constructed without further delay. It is not only an im portant section of the trunk line through the state, but it has consid erable value to the west end of Gal latin countv in affording means of transportation for its products to Butte and points between. "So far as the location is concerned. I we appreciate that vour board must I make a determination on that subject after a careful consideration of the two proposed routes. We do urge, however, that the right route be chosen, regardless of the first cost, as the traffic is heavy on this road, and will raoidly and constantly in the others who have attended the meeting, that the best route, all things considered, is the Jefferson canyon route, and that the difference in first cost would be more than compensated^ (Continued on Page Twelve) crease when it is put into condition for all year travel. A route which will permit of all year travel is im portant also, as the element of drift ing snow in the winter time must be considered. It is the opinion of the members of our board as well as the opinion of <* SWORN AFFIDAVIT MUST ACCOMPANY LICENSE REQUEST An affidavit, sworn to before a notary, showing that the applicant for registration of a motor vehicle has paid his personal taxes on the machine for 1927, must be filed with Austin Middleton, state registrar, before the license will be issued. Applicants have been in doubt as to tiie procedure, for they have re lied upon the filing of certified lists by county treasurers with the regis trar from which the latter was sup posed to obtain his information as to whether the tax had been paid. Not long ago the deputy registrar at Deer It t e lo:^ 0 jÂinTSVL c rt ceipt accompany the application but car owners objected fearing that the receipt might be lost in the mails. The registrar's office replying, said the tax receipt was only required in certain cases and^ advised waiting until the blank applications were re ceived. These began arriving a few days ago accompanied by the blank affidavit requiring sworn answers to the questions as to make of car, mo tor number, whether applicant* was the owner of the car March 7, 1927, and if so whether the 1927 property tax had been paid and if not whether the taxes^are lien upon real estate. ---— DIBS IN CALIFORNIA. Mrs. Herman Moser, for many years » resident of this city, died | last Thursday morning in Long Beach, Calif. Funeral rites were held in that city Tuesday, and burial was in the Sunnyside cemetery. Besides her husband, Mrs. Moser is surrived by a daughter, Mrs. W. J. Dickinson of Corpus Christie, Texas, and a step swwDexter E, Mesar' of Bozeman. 'm&ß-M Outlook Bright for Happy and Prosperous New Year In Great Treasure State • 1 ! ! CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES TOTALLING $35,000,00 0 PLANNED BY FEDERAL, STATE GOVERNMENTS AND PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS A happy and prosperous New Year I is the outlook for the Treasure state in 1928, judged by a preview of con struction and building activities al ready planned for the coming year, says the state publicity division, Total expenditures amounting to approximately $35,000,000 have been announced by state and federal gov ernments and by public service cor porations. Federal aid road funds matched by state money in the proportion of 56.04 to 43.96 will total $3,000,000 to be spent on Montana highways in 1928 on 30 projects which will include ap proximately 200 miles of road. In eluding county, city, national park and forest service highways, total road expenditures for 1928 will be about $7,000,000. Federal Projects Reclamation projects will account for more than $2,000,000 of federal moneys to be spent in the state. The Gibson dam on the Sun River proj ect, which is being built at a cost of $1,800,000, will be completed. Drain age work on the lower Yellowstone project in Richland county will cost $100,000 and will complete a ten-year drainage program involving an ex pense of $2,500,000. Bids will be opened later for other work o*i the project to be completed during 1928. Money spent on new construction and drainage work is in addition to the regular maintenance expenditure MASONIC BODIES ELECT OFFICERS I . w ?? chosen H?* 1 P™ est » Hollis I ^ j "• * an Horn, scribe, and O. A. Lynn, secretary-treasurer. Later appointments were announced During the last week or 10 days several of the city's Masonic bodies elected officers for the coming year, and one, Bozeman lodge No. 18, A. F. and A, M.. last Thursday evening held its installation ceremony. For the Royal Arch body Dale as follows: C. B. Swim, C. H.; Hugh Stallings, P. S.; Charles Bell, R. C.; Dewey Street, M. of V.; George H. Russell, M. of Second V.; Emmett, Moore, M. of Third V., and W. H. Everson, sentinel. In the Blue lodge, No. 18, the elec tion resulted as follows: E. J. Bell, W. M.; A. D. Grantham, S. W.; T. M. Perrin, J, W.; D. E. Moser, treasurer; L. C. Bergln, secretary, pointive offices were then filled by the new master, Mr. Bell, by naming The ap H. A. Stallings, S. D.; L. M. Johnson, J. D.; W. L. Mecklenburg, S. S.; W. W. Casper, J. S., and L. E. Gage, tyler. The installation was conduc ted by Past Master B, H. Alexander, with Past Master C. S. Kenyon acting as marshal. Lily of the Valley chapter No. 4, Order of the Eastern Star, chose the following officers: Mrs. Alice Kleirv schmidt, W. M.; Lawrence Bergen, W. P,; Mrs. Dexter Moser, A. M.; R. H. Elliott, secretary; Miss Poetter, treasurer; Mrs. Zana Dean, conduc tress, and Mrs. Clara Donaldson, as sociate conductress. The appointive officers will be announced later. • REDUCED FARES. • I The Northern Pacific railway an-* nouncs a special rate of fare and one-half on the certificate plan to the Montana Education meeting at Helena December 28, 1927, to Janu ary 14, 192». The rate will apply from all points in Montana. Certifi cates showing tickets purchased : on' the going trip, December 26 to 31, will be honored at half-fare returning if presented not later than January 18, subject to minimum attendance of 100. 40 Doctors Invited Explain '■ m • > VfO-Dn.« tïït I inti fir Mnftd»rc "F 5 Mfl ^H UOT WCLlierS _ . More than 40 Montana physicians have been invited to appear at the prohibition headquarters in Helena December 27 to January 7 to submit reasons why their permits to pre SCI >ibe liquor during 1928 should be renewed, according to E. E. Collins, attorney for the nineteenth enforce m ent district. No permits have been revoked, it wa8 explained by Mr. Collins. All permits expire December 31, he said, and many have already been renewed, In casps where investigators have reported violation of the prescription law or of permit regulations the re newing rf the permit has been held up pending a conference with the physician. "Doctors have not been summoned i 0 Helena but have been invited to appear to talk things over," said Mr., Collins. "It is probable some of .* * made annually by the federal gov ernment on irrigation projects. Senator Walsh has a bill in the senate that calls for the expenditure of $750,000 for post office buildings in Helena, Missoula, Glasgow and , Havre. A federal *Aain laboratory} will be established at Miles City for i which buildings will be erected next ! spring. Public Service In addition to expenditures by state and federal governments, sev eral million dollars will be spent by public service corporations during 1928. Transportation companies will,', spend approximately $10.000,000. The Great Northern, in addition to the $2,000,000 Saco-Turner branch in the ■ eastern part of tlte state, will spend j $500.000 in tunnel and track improve- ; ments in northwestern Montana. The Northern Pacific during 1928 will spend $5,000,000, a large part of which will go to Montana lines. A water softening plant at Glendive is a part of the program. It is expected that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul will continue electrification of the road from Harlowton to the coast. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company will build two npw lines in Montana, cost of which has not been definitely determined as yet. The Montana-Dakota Power com pany will build pipe lines to convey {Continued on Page Twelve) 'YOUNG MAN HAS NARROW ESCAPE Overcome by smoke and gas in an early-morning fire at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house Sunday, Duane Maxson, M. S. C. student, was saved from death by sufficatkm by the prompt action of his fraternity comrades. * , The blaze was caused by a discon nected furnace pipe, and spread among the rafters and partitions in the base ment. Clouds of dense smoke filled the upper rooms and the occupants hastily gathered such of their posses sions as they could and made their escape. In the excitement it was not noticed that Maxson was missing . When his absence was discovered the fire department had arrived and ladders were raised to the windows. Jim Jorgenson and Max Griffin quick ly re-entered the building, found Max son and carried him to a window, whence he was taken to the ground. A physician was summoned and in a short time he was revived. He will suffer no permanent harm from his experience. The damage to the building was small, but during the fire a thief en tered and stole a watch and $12 in cash, the property of Maxson, and 40 or 50 phonograph records. MONDAY, DEC. 26, TO BE HOLIDAY Inasmuch as Christmas day falls on Sunday, next Monday will be observed as a holiday in business, professional and financial- circles of the city. All stores, banks, and other establish ments will be closed. At the post office, according to Postmaster Fran sham, there will be no deliveries by carrier on either Sunday or Monday, but mail n,ay be obtained at central office at designated hours; * I Sunday, Christmas day, the 1 post office will be open from 9 til 12 noon. On Monday, the hours will be from 8 a. m. until noon, Pat rons of delivery routes will find their mail awaiting them at the windows at either end of the lobby. a. m. un ' 1928. permits which have been held up, will be issued after conference be tween Mr. Nickerson, head of the per mit department, and the physician. "Where we have evidence of con tinued violation of the permit régula tions we proceed on the assumption that the physician does not deserve a renewed permit. "Many physicians have already calL ed at the office and conferred regard-) ing 1928 permits. A permit is given by t)ie prohibition bureau and allows a doctor to write 100 liquor ofesetip i tibns every 90 days." • Several drug stores are on the list , of those whose liquor licenses for |[1928 may not be issued. ! Special investigators are employed 1 bv the prohibition bureau to inspect the liquor stocks of drug stores check the supply allowed against the the!amount called for in prescriptions. MONTANA'S DAIRY PRODUCTS IN 1927 WORTH $11,000,000 Montana's 1S27 dairy production is valued at about $11,000,000, an in crease of 10 per cent as compared with 1926, according to the dairy division of the state department of agriculture. The report indicates that there were 70 creameries, 13 cheese factories, and 223 cream stations operating during the year. The 1927 production of butter is given at 16,730,000 pounds, a gain of 500,000 pounds over 1926 when pro duction was 16,230,000 pounds. Ice | cream production this year was 000 gallons, compared with 672,000 gallons in 1926, a decrease of 72,000 gallons. Cheese also shows a decrease the 1927 production being 1,091,305 pounds, as against 1,810,683 pounds in 1926. Benefits-Father I flàlP CCI DPI! CflD >1 |||l|| «|f /l|||||i f|||\ aAJllU Uliililvli ft n n inirm p|inn 11/ II KjlilWr\rwll\ Jj # |\ # LllLlU Former Lovelace Company Sales man. Charged With Embezzle ment, Nabbed On Coast After a search that began a year ago next Saturday, William R. Barnes, former salesman for the Lovelace Grocery company who is charged with having misappropriated about $1,100 belonging to that firm, has been ar rested in Los Angeles and will be returned here for trial. Barnes disappeared December 23, 1926, and when efforts to locate him failed a complaint was filed and a warrant charging embezzlement is sued January 17, 1927. It is not known whether Barnes will waive ex tradition, but a representative of the sheriff's office, armed with requisi tion papers signed by Governor J. E. Erickson, is now en route to Cali fornia. Barnes, it is alleged in the com plain^ while employed by the Love lace company collected the money on various accounts and applied it to his own use. When the facts were disclosed through an investigation, he fled, leaving his wife and family, I CAR THIEVES TO REFORM SCHOOL James Phillips, 17, and Kenneth Rudolph, 18 years of age, who pleaded guilty to charges of grand larceny in connection with the theft of auto mobiles, were last week sentenced to the state industrial school at Miles City, there- to remain until they are Phillips stole a car belonging to J. H. Monforton and drove it to his old home in Ohio. Later, on his return trip to Bozeman, Phillips got into trouble at Fargo and confessed the auto theft. He was brought here and confined in the countv jail. Rudolph admitted stealing a car be longing to John Chapman, a rancher 21. of near Bozeman. He was arrested in this city by the police while prepar ing to leave for Washington. He also entered a plea of guilty. Wool Buyers Offering 36 Cents, Growers Advised to "Sit Steady ff THREE MEMBERS COUNTY FAIR BODY ABE REAPPOINTED Three members of the Gallatin County Fair commission were # re-ap pointed last week by the board of county commissioners. They are R. E. Bodley,,county agent; E. L. Heidel, cashier of the Belgrade State bank, and Harvey Griffin of Springhill, well known purebred stock man. The holdover members of the board are J. A. Siffert of Three Forks and C. W. Overstreet of Gallatirt'Gateway. At its next meeting tha fair board will re-organize, appoint officers for I In connection with the re -a Ppo int ment 0 f Mr. Bodley it is recalled that the board of county commissioners, in making the county budget last : August,' allowed the sum of $300 ex tra to be paid him for acting as president of the fair board in 1928. It is assumed, therefore, thqt he will be re-elected to that office, the coming year, and make prelimi nary plans for Gallatin cotfnty's 1928 fair. h. D. BATH IMPROVES Attorney Hubert D. Bath, who was suddenly taken ill last, Wednesday while in 'Livingston on business and was brought to the Deaconess hospi tai here, had sufficiently improv< Monday to be removed to his home For several days Mr. Bath's condi j tion was serious. He was advised tc J go to Rochester, Minn., fortan exam andjiration and left Tuesday with his i father, Dr. T. Bath of Reno, Nev., Hot that city. MRS. H. HOWARD, GALLATIN PIONEER, TAKEN BY DEATH Daughter of Late C. L. Anceney, Sr.—Funeral Services Held Thursday Morning Aline Anceney Howard, 66 years of age, wife of H. H. Howard and a ", au £, er M r * an( * , Mrs. 600,-Charles Anceney, Sr., died at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning at her home on Tracy avenue south. Mrs. Howard hud been ill for many months, Funeral services were held at 9:30 o'clock Thursday morning at the Holy Rosary Catholic church, the Rev. J. J. O'Kennedy officiating at requiem mass. The body was taken to Manhattan and laid to rest in the Meadow View cemetery, where the parents of Mrs. Howard are buried, The pallbearers were H. B. McCay, T ' B Story, Roy E. Martin, Justin M * Smith, C. W. Sweet and Tel Menard, Mrs. Howard was born July 31» 1861, in Kansas City, Mo. With her parents she came to Montana in 1864, locating at Alder Gulch, but in a short time removing to the Gallatin valley and settling on a ranch near what is now Manhattan. After graduating from St. Vincent's academy at Helena and the Morgan Park seminary near Chicago, she went to New York and took a course in kindergarten train ing. Upon returning to Bozeman she conducted, with Mrs. Mary L. Doane, such an institution. In August, 1901, she was married to Harry H. Howard, now manager of the Bozeman Chron icle. With the exception of the time she spent in outside schools, Mrs. Howard's entire life had been spent in Gallatin county. She was a mem ber of the Pioneers' Society of Gal (Continued on page Twelve) M. S. C. TEACHERS GRANTED LEAVES Ten teachers from the staffs of the State college here and the State uni versity at Missoula will next year be on Iqpves of absence, according to the quarterly report of Chancellor MeE vin A. Brannon of the Greater Uni versity of Montana. Those from the State college who will enjoy leaves are R. T. Challen der, associate professor of mechanical engineering, from Sept. 1, 1928 to Sept. 1, 1929, on- half pay of $1,500; R. A. Cooley, professor of entomol ogy, from Alpril 1, 1928, to April 1, 1929, on half pay of $2,250; F. W. Ham, professor of physics, from Sept. 1, 1928, to Sept. 1, 1929, on half pay of $1,550; G. O. Romney, professor of athletics and assistant dean of men, from Sept. 1, 1928, to Sept. 1, 1929, on half T>ay of $2,250, and Dalla A. Young, instructor in secretarial . work, from Sept. 1, 1928, to Sept. 1, 1929, without pay. It is understood that Coach Ott Romney will take advanced work in coaching at an eastern college next year. That the wool buyers from the east who have come to Montana two or three weeks.in advance of the tims they usually appear, mean to bid ac tively for the 1928 clip, is indicated by reports of offers already made in northern Montana of 36 cents a ;>ound, about *3 cents above what was jelieved to be the figure generally agreed upon as the maximum this early. The Montana Woolgrowers' association received word of the of fers at Helena Saturday, but is ad vising its members to sit steady and await developments. The association believes that be cause of a world wide shortage, wool is likely to reach the highest price known in many years. Many of the members will store the clip. Those irry them able to se who may need cash to ca through for a time will be cure money at a rate of interest much lower than the legal rate. The asso ciation has arranged for $1,000,000 at the Intermediate Credit bank, avail able té members the coming year. THREE FORKS MAN TAKES BANKRUPTCY \ John W, Jenkins, a railway con , _. daim b keeper. ductor whose residence is at Three Forks, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the federal court. He set the total debts he owes at $1, His assets are nil, except for personal property that he to be exempt. g the claims he 'Lvts as un aro the following: N. M. , claim for funeral outlay, 31 for 1rs '