PAGE TWO PRISON SUIT WON BY FORMER WARDEN State Owes Frank Conley $558 In Lieu Os $330,000 It Sought, Judge Horsky Rules Helena.—A complete victory for Frank Conley, former warden of the Montana penitentiary, who was sued by the state for an accounting after he had been replaced by Gov. J. M. Dixon in April, 1921, was contained in the opinion and ruling handed down Monday morning by Judge A. J. Hor sky of the district court in Helena. The'decision was a complete exoner ation of the members of all prison boards from 1908 to 1921, and their actions. Conley was favored on all causes of action brought by the state except the fourteenth, on which the state Is al lowed $65.12. Conlej’ lost on all h’s counterclaims except the eighth and ninth, on which he was allowed $023.18, which will offset the amount of the claim allowed the state, giving a settle ment of $558.06 due to Conley from the state. In the second cause of action against Conley, relating to the Valiton ranch In Powell county, which Conley de clared he bought for the state and for which he held the title in escrow until the state should pay him, the state was given opportunity until March 15, 1923, to take over the land and equipment on payment of the amounts invested In them by Conley. MONTANA’S DEATH RATE LOWEST IN 1921, SURVEY SHOWS Washington.—Figures for practically all states within the death registra tion area of the country, as announced recently by the census bureau, reflect the decreased death rate for the total area in 1924, as compard with the pre ceding year. Os the adjusted rates figured on the differences In the sex and age dis tribution of the population in the va rious states, Montana showed the low est, 8.8 per 1,000 population, and Mas sachusetts the highest, 13.4. For cities of 100,000 or more population the low est adjusted rate, 9.2, was reported for Akron, Ohio, while a rate of 19 for Memphis was the highest. Oklahoma Head to Face Trial Ada, Okla.—Gov. J. B. A. Robertson of Oklahoma will go to trial on a charge of bribery in district court here December 12. Date for the trial was set here by Special Judge Thomas A. Edwards after he had overruled a demurrer to the indictment against the executive, and defense attorneys had announced their desire for an immediate trial. A motion to quash the indictment which, it had been indicated, was held In reserve by the governor’s counsel, was not presented, his attorneys an nouncing that they did not wish to con sume the time in taking testimony but preferred to rush the case. Seven Is Toll of Blast Albuquerque. N. M.—The list of dead in the explosion of mine No. 4 of the Albuquerque-Corrillos Coal com pany at Madrid, N. M., about 50 miles north and east of here, remained at seven, but the number of Injured was reduced from about 30 to 13. Only 20 men were in the mine nt the time of the explosion and all either were killed or injured, officials of the company de clared. A check-up made shows that all the men who were in the mine have been accounted for. The cause of the ex plosion has not been determined. Middle States Enters Wyoming Casper. Wyo.— That the Middle States Oil corporation, one of the large est operating companies of the mid continent fields, will enter the Wy oming industry in the near future on a scale of magnitude is practically an assured fact and negotiations are now pending for producing acreage in Salt Creek and other fields. Mrs. Phillips Gets 10 Years Los Angeles.—Mrs. Clara Phillips, convicted of murder in the second de gree for killing Mrs. Alberta Meadows with a hammer, was sentenced to serve from 10 years to life In the state prison at San Quentin. A 10-day stay was asked to permit her attorneys to for mulate an appeal from the Judgment and sentence. Poison Booze Kills Private Cheyenne, Wyo. Private Fred Wolfe, of the hospital corps, Is dead nt Fort D. A. Russel, and two other sol diers are in the hospital In serious condition as the result, it Is said, of drinking poisoned liquor. Steamers Collide Buenos Aires, Argentina.—Thirty four lives were lost in a collision re cently between p launch and a ferry boat in the Parana river near Zarate, northwest of Buenos Aires. Senate G. O. P. Meets Defeat Washington.—Administration forces In the senate lost the first major legis lative contest of the extra session re cently when Democrats and Progres sive Republicans united to re-commit the resolution authorizing a loan of $5,000,000 to Liberia. Mias MacSwlney la Freed Dublin.—Miss Mary McSwiney, who has been hunger striking in Mount Joy prison, was released Monday. Her re lease came on the twenty-third day of her hunger strike. PLANS TO SEIZE RUHR REGION READY TO MOVE TROOPS IN 24 HOURS IF BERLIN MISSES NEXT INSTALLMENT NEAR EAST TRAGEDY LOOMS American Destroyers Patrolling Med iterranean and Black Sea Coast Send Out S. O. S. Calls for 250,000 Christians Paris. —A plan for direct action by France as a solution of the reparations question was submitted recently to the cabinet meeting in the Elysee palace, with President Millerand presiding. The plan provides for seizure of the state coal mines and collection of the export taxes in the Ruhr district, to gether with absolute control of that section of the Rhineland now occupied by the French military. Paris.—The intention of France to “pay herself’’ In Germany came before a full meeting of the cabinet. There no longer is much faith here in any Inter-allied solution of the reparations question, even though the Brussels conference is held. Marshal Foch and Major General Bunt, the French chief of staff, are understood to have told President Millerand and Premier Poincare at the meeting that a plan for extending the military occupation of the right bank of the Rhine had been prepared with the utmost care, and that it could be executed with 24 hours’ notice. Refugees Crowding U. S. Ships Constantinople. Another human tragedy that promises to rival the Smyrna fire is developing in northern Asia Minor. The tide of 250.000 Christian inhabitants is sweeping in full flood to the fringes of the Black sea and the Mediterranean. These refugees are clamoring to be saved. The American naval base at Constan tinople is deluged with S. O. S. calls from the flotilla of American destroy ers patrollng the Mediterranean and Black sea coast of Asia Minor, which are crowded with Christians fleeing from the Turk. Six Face Firing Squad Athens, Greece. —The six former cab inet officers and army officials con victed of high treason in connection with the Greek military disaster in Asia Minor have been executed. The execution of the condemned men was by shooting. The men executed were: Former Premiers Gounaris, Protopapndakis and Stratos; M. Theotokis, former war minister; M. Baitazzis, holder of port folios in several former cabinets, and General Hadjanestls, commander of the Greek forces at the time of the Asia Minor military disaster. Radium Price Cut $50,000 Denver. —Radium has dropped $50.- 000 a gram in price, and the Standard Chemical company has been forced to close its carnotite properties in Para dox valley, in western Montrose coun ty, Colorado, throwing 250 men out of work, according to an announcement made by officials of the company here. Discovery of vast deposits of pitch blend In the Belgian Congo Is said to he responsible for the decrease in price of radium, which is said to sell for $70,000 a gram now, compared with $120,000 a gram formerly. Arrest McAdoo for Speeding Fresno, Cal. —W. G. McAdoo of Los Angeles, former secretary of the treas ury, was arrested in Tulare county re cently and cited to appear before Judge J. S. Clack to answer a charge of speeding at the rate of 51 miles an hour. Judge Clack has the reputation of jailing drivers caught exceeding 50 miles in Tulare county. Lasting Peace Is “Blind Hope” Minneapolis, Minn.—An appeal to the nation to “look cold, hard facts in the face and not forget our obligations In the blind hope that we may not again engage in armed conflict,” marked an address delivered here by General Pershing under the auspices of the American Defense society. Abandons Rail Legislation Washington.—Chairman Cummins of the senate interstate commerce com mittee says that he has abandoned plans for railroad legislation this win ter and will not introduce his proposed hill for amendment of the Esch-Cuin mlns transportation act until the next congress. Avert Building Tleup New York.—The Lockwood legisla tive committee averted a threatened tleup of building operations In the Metropolitan area and idleness among 100,000 laborers by negotiating a truce between building employes and union workers. Harding honors Irvin S. Cobb New York.—President Harding* has granted a commission ns major in the military Intelligence division of the officers’ reserve corps to Irvin S. Cobb, writer and author, as a reward for his work during the World war. Woo Canadians Home Ottawa, Ont.—Efforts to persuade Canadians In the United States to re turn to their home|land will be included In an extensive (American drive, ac cording to reports from Minister Jtewa rt. HAYWOOD’S COLONY IS GHASTLY FAILURE Two Former Washington Residents Who Invested Money in Commun ist Project Tell Story at Riga Riga.—Joseph Krajewski ami Otto Nemitz, nat tralized Americans from the state of Washington, who have Just arrived In Riga, brought with them a story of the sufferings of Americans who went to Siberia in July as mem bers of “Big Bill’’ Haywood’s autono mous Industrial colony called “Kuz bas,’’ with headquarters at Kemerovo, Überla. Krajewski and Nemitz stated that hey had been attracted to the Kuzbas 'reposition by its alluring literature. 'Tach person, they said, paid S3OO en -ance fee. furnished th' lr own trans ‘ortatlon end bought their own food, n return, they were allotted a tent and •ermitted to labor in the coal mines on prof’-sharlng basis. • The experiment wns a terrible fail 're, the men asserted. There were no rofits to divide. The colony, conslst ng of 400 persons, half of whom were vomen and children, was in a deplor »hlo situation. Its me nbers all lacked he monev with which to return to the United States. Sanitary conditions ere described as awful. Food was n the bill’s passage. Immediately after passage of the ill by the house, Chairman Jones of he senate commerce committee called i meeting of his com ml (tee to be held : n the near future to h-g-n its consider ation. and expressed the belief that Httle time would be needed by the •om-mlttee with prospects of a speedy presentation of the bill to the senate. Approximately 70 Republicans voted against the bill and four Democrats voted for It. Burch Jury Again Disagrees Los Angeles.—The jury in the third trial of Arthur C. Burch for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy—eight women and four men—after being out 30 hours and 15 minutes, reported to Judge John W. Shenk that it wns hopelessly dead locked and was discharged. The jury stood 7 to 5. the foreman announced to Judge Shenk. After court adjourned, the Jurors stated that seven were for acquittal and five for conviction. The third trial of Madalyne Obonchain, Burch’s co-defendant, was set to begin soon, but indications are It will be postponed, because her at torneys are engaged in another case. Teacher Saves 40 Tots From Fire Covington, Ga.—Two dead and 38 in jured wns the toll taken in the burning of the High Point counmunlty school house near here, when the structure, In which 99 children were engaged In studies, wns destroyed by fire. A care ful check showed that all the others had been accounted for and identified. These pupils were in the room of Mrs. Oscar Grant, who heroically stood by the window and dropped 40 children to the ground before the floor of her room gave way and she was engulfed in flames. She was unable to save two boys, who were lost In the smoke. Couzens Is Newberry’s Successor Lansing, Mich. Mayor James Couzens of Detroit, has been appointed by Gov. Alexander J. Groesbeck ns United States senator from Michigan to fill the unexpired term of former Senator Truman H. Newberry, who re signed. Mayor Couzens has accepted the appointment, the governor said. The governor announced Mr. Couzens, who has gained nationwide prominence through his municipal railway venture In Detroit, would take his seat in the senate as soon as his Detroit affairs could be arranged. Commission Is Handicapped Helena.—Failure of coinmerlcial or ganizations of Montana to respond to the request of the state railroad com mission for data on which to base its fight Increased express rates is handi capping the commission In its prepara tions, according to Chairman Lee Den nis of that body. Oil Freeze-out Charge Dismissed Cheyenne, Wyo.—Charges that mem bers of the so-called Standard Oil group had conspired to freeze out the min ority stockholders in the Bair Oil com pany, a subsidiary, have been dis missed here. Women Are Leaving Farms Washington.—Larger numbers of women rhan men are leaving the farms In search of more lucerative field of endeavor, the census bureau says, bas ing its statement on an analysis of the 1920 census statistics. LATE NEWS I rctn Aii Over WYOMING Charles H Hill, state commissioner ut iiuuiigrution, was umung the speak ers at the first annual Wyoming Potu to Show Ueia at Torrlugton, Nov. 22. 23 aud 24. He discussed ••Future le tuto Shows ot Wyoming.” Edward Gal lagos ot Casper Is suf teiing from a painful wound In the right hand lr.fi.cted when a revolver which he pulled from a holster wjiil out hunting tell to the ground and was discharged. The bullet mutilated his hand. Henry Havk, alias W. C. Conway, arrested in Casper tor complicity in numerous auto thefts, as recoyered from bullet wounds from which he was suilering i. the lime tie wus taken in to custody and has been removed to the Jail frov. the county hospital. Goshen county Is preparing to insti tute a suit l test the validity of sol- Jiers lux exemption law passed by the last Legislature. Ex-service men re siding in the county also plan to In stitute action to test the law. The soldiers’ exemption is not being al lowed by Goshen county tills year. A committee made up of prominent sportsmen .ms picked a mythical L representative Wyoming high school eleven. Three each of Casper and Douglas players are chosen. Two are named for Cheyenne und a pair for Sheridan's eleven, the remaining num ber selected being of the Laramie team. Chartering of a special car to Chey enne for transportation of law violat ors facing trial in the United States District Court there will shortly be necessary if ttr Natrona county Jail at Casper is to receive any more prison ers. Those now being held Include al leged violators of the drug, liquor and auto theft statutes. Petitions asking the recall of Mayor Charles W. Sheldon und City Commis sioners Archie McCarty and H. Allen Floyd, charging that they have been “Incompetent in their duties and have fulled to understand, handle and man age municipal affairs in a competent and in a legal manner,’’ are being cir uuiuted in Sheridan. Elk, usually considered creatures of the untamed wild, are in reality so tame us to be a positive menace, ac cording to A. B. Ennis, whose ranch Is on Big Goose creek, near Sheridan. Ennis appealed to George Street, gume warden, to .uve him from threatened ravages upon his corn patch by a band of 75 to 10C elk. A force of surveyors of the Sinclair Pipe Line Company of Tulsa, Okia., Is making its headquarters In Guernsey. The men are running the preliminary survey for the pipe line from the Tea pot structure to Kansas City. The pipe line will come through Guernsey, fol lowing the Platte river across Wyom ing for a good portion of Hie dist nee. At the weekly luncheon of the Lions Club it was decided to take active steps at once looking to the staging of a “Mid-Winter Fair” tn Pine Bluffs, to be held probably In January. A poul try show, corn show, potato show, will be combined In one fair, and probably there will be prizes for the best loaf of bread, can of jelly, and for various other articles that the housewife takes pride In mukii g. A time freight train, manned by Conductor C. E. Peters and Engineer R. B. Bettis, derailed seven cars of stock two miles east of Clearmont, due to a draw bar dropping down on the seventeenth car from engine, derailing seven cars r* p*'«ck and totally destroy ing three cars, killing about thirty head of cattle i nd releasing 160 more. Property damage is estimated to be us follows: True’’, $125; equipment, $2,- 800; stock, $1,200. Ben Bishop, aged 23 years, was smothered .o death on the road to the Bolton Creek oil field, about twenty four miles southwest of Casper, when the giant truck, loaded with oil sup plies, slipped off the road and turned over on him in the ditch. The mopt liberal paymaster In Wyo ming was F. W. Thomas, cashier at the sugar factory, when he mailed out to the beet growing farmers of the lx>v eil factory territory $151,000 for beets delivered from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15. Ton nage was especially good this year and the farmers wore u broad smile as they received their cnecks, even though It required mo A the amount to liquid ate accumulated Indebtedness. It wus one big pay day of the year. An unofficial statement compiled from official returns received at the office of the secretary of state shows that the Seventeenth Wyoming Legis lature will consist of twenty Republic an and five De. locratlc senators, with one seat In doubt between tne Demo cratic and Republican candidates In the recent lection, and thirty-seven Republican anC twenty-twi. Democrat ic representatives, with one seat In the House In doubt between the Repub lican und Democratic cundldutes. There has teen strenuous shipping at the O. 8. L.** largest freight ship ping jMint on Its entire system—the little town rs opal, n few miles en:: of Kemmeivr, says the Republican. This (llstlnction pro 1 ably Is not held by my town, on any railroad, the size of Opal in the United Slates. Superintendent Frank Cook of the Stale Fish Hatchery Laramie has received 20 eyed Sllverslde trout •*ggs from Tu'uunn. Wash., the firs •hipment of eggt to be received In Lar amie this fall und the first ever i reived (or hutching of that variety. The Christmas a Christopher 0. Hazard Copyrldht 1922 w ®st«r n Nok'spapar Union WT WAS not a very cheerful boy that wus ,ooking out A ( M the window at what little Jfl. dirty ice the winter thaw had left upon the hill in J front of the house. Through the fine coasting days he iad heard the happy noise of the deddlDg while the doctor had said ;hat he could not go out and Join in t, and now, though he might soon be >ut of doors again, there wus no surety >f as good a hill again and small pros »ect of sport. It wasn’t a very cheerful house, dther. Mr. Bondage was a chalnmak »r, and when he came home from his iron works he always seemed to bring ds business with him. The house of Bondage wus big and strong, but It .vas hard, and still, and dark, and to>> »rderly. From the outside it looked ike a fort, and Inside, the chairs stood it attention, like soldiers. The par lor was. a solemn place, where the -itlff furniture was seldom prevented from looking at itself in the gilded nirror. The dining room didn’t get he sun until towards evening, when he motto, “Be Good and You Will Be Happy” could be as plainly seen as the one on the opposite wall, “Chil dren Should Be Seen but Not Heard.” When the boy put on his hated bib there, it exhorted him with, “Don’t Eat Too Much.” ' Chained to the front porch was an Iron dog, whose fixed and ferocious ■marl was a standing Insult to all the village dogs that could get through the iron fence to dispute with him. There was some fun about the place; t was when a surprised dog retired from the attack with u new respect for the tough guardian of the Bondage in terests. Even tlie iron-clad knight In the front hall seemed to laugh through his visor then. Besides all this. Ishmael had had no Christmas. Mr. Bondage did not be leve in Christmas; to him Santa Claus was a foolish imagination and t hurtful superstition. He had Joined ‘The Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving,” and was glad to be •ailed a Spug. On December 25th he had presented to his son a picture of himself, standing In front of his office with the scowl upon his face that rep resented his idea of the expression of greatness, but the only comfort of the day for the boy had been the sweet contents of the small package that bls mother had smuggled into his room Just before daylight. But Ishmael Bondage had an Aunt Sarah! And Aunt Sarah had the pleasantest home in the country. It ivas a low. wide, rambling old house, in the midst of the trees and hugged ay the climbing vines that loved it. There wasn’t a place in It too good to be used and In its snowy whiteness It seemed to shine out upon the fenceless grounds with an Invitation to the hos pitality of its gardens nnd the good (r M kt- Aunt Sarah Carried Ishmael Off. cheer of Itu friendly owners. That was the bright spot for Ishmael. When he went out there bls aunt would bang Ids Fauntleroy suit up In the closet and give him a leather suit that could not be torn and tell him to go It. He could eat without a bib and there was not a motto In sight. By the time that vacation was over he was a real boy. The other boys stopped calling him “Sissy” and no longer asked him If Ids mother knew he was out. Indeed, he up and thrashed a bullying boy who had knocked over one of bls compan ions who was about half his size. Af ter this there was nothing that he could not have among his crowd. So. every vacation sent a prim but Joyful hoy to Aunt Sarah and closed with a more robust but rather dejected one on his way home, But Aunt Sijrab also had a mind of her own. She had so much mind that she had concluded that winter to go ind give Benjamin Bondage a piece It. She considered Ishmael’s state and situation nnd resolved to give his father "■ good talking to.” When she WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1922. appeared Mr. Bondage felt that bls time had probably come. When she had finished he knew It had. She told him that he had forgotten that he was ever a boy. If, Indeed, he hud ever been one', that he had made himself Into an Iron man, that he was blind eyed and hard-hearted, that he seemed determined to fasten all bls chains up on Ishmael and make bls son as stiff and cold as an Icicle. Mrs. Bondage, behind the door, ex pected her husband to object In loud and angry tones, but, to her astonish ment, be was silent. He seemed to remember an old motto, "Discretion Is the Better Part of Valor,” profitably, nnd did not Interfere, even when Aunt Sarah, flushed, but triumphant, carried Ishmael off. There was some winter play left and to come at Sweetfleld, but Aunt Sarah wasn’t satisfied as easily as that, for she had made up the rest of her mind Into an Idea that Ishmael should have the Christmas that he hadn't had, af ter all. It wasn’t much of a Christmas day when the belated Christmas tree blossomed and bore fruit, but It was a fine tree. The snow and Ice had dis appeared and a warm wind made the late winter seem like early spring, but Aunt Sarah said that evergreen trees kept Christmas all the year round, and that every day was their day. Cer- I 1 i J ■ "A Wonderful Pocketknife—” lainly it wus the most interesting tree that Ishmael had ever seen, from the bundle at the bottom, through all the ornaments, lights and gifts, to the mys terious package at the top of it shone witii kind und thoughtful love and sparkled with merry wishes and glad promise. They und the children from the neighborhood who hud come to share the Joy und the presents that Aunt Sarah had prepared were won dering whut would be found in that last parcel at the top, until it wus taken down, and then a part of the party, at least, was surprised when the wrapping was taken off and a wonder ful pocketknife, beside a flrot-clast football, conveyed merry wishes from Mr. Bondage to his son. Aunt Surab said afterwards that at this she near ly “went off the handle.” When May catne It seemed time foi Ishmael to go home, but he was not very happy at the prospect. Indeed, he was rather unhappy about It. He felt something like one un his way to jail, and even shed tears at the thought of leaving Sweetfield, so that a squirrel, seeing him wiping his eyes under a tree, exclaimed “Oh, what n rainy boy I” but the day came and Ishmael went. Another surprise awaited him, how ever, for, as he neared home und en tered it, everything seemed changed. The house looked sunny and pleasant in its new colors, the fence hud disup peared, the iron dog had been moved to the barn, and the mailed knight hud gone down to the ironworks to be turned into plowshares. When Mr. Bondage went out to Sweetfleld to visit his sister and to report upon Ishmael’s progress, Aunt Surah had her reward. “It Is all yom doing. Sarah,” said he. “I needed someone to show me up to myself." “Well, brother,” said Aunt Sarah, “A Stitch in Time Saves Nine," us the proverb has it, and you certainly will be proud of our boy yet, as proud ol him as I am of my big, new brother.' / When December came blustering around again and brought Santa Claui and all his loud of love and jollity there wns no place that more warmly welcomed him than Mount Freedom, as Mr. Bondage’s home had come to be called, and of all the happy Christ inas parties of that year, none wns fuller of mirdi and good cheer than the one at Mount Freedom. They danced about the tree and under the motto that hung from the top of il with its message of good will to every body, the football was kicked all ovei the floor and they shouted in thelt glee. The squeaking toys, the tooting whistles, the happy songs, all made the time as merry as it ought always to be, while the gifts spoke messages of love. ' Ishmael had prospered enough in his studies to make a picture of Sweet 4 field. It hung over the mantel shell Id the living room and under It he had written, “The Home of the Greer Christmas.” When anyone asked hl it about it he would tell them how spring once came In a wintry time; he wool say th#t while Christmas comes but once a year, it aometimes comes twice and that whenever It comes it bring! good cheer; but he was never able t< make a picture of his Aunt Sarah tbs seamed to him good enough