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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-27
STATE EXAMINERS OFFICE.
Comparative Cost and Work
Under Richards and
TOOCe,

The 1895 1egisia ture created this i'm
porthnt office for examination of all
state and county Offices handling pub
lie money, and supervision of banks
incorpor ated under the state law. The
annual salary of the state examiner
was fixed at 81, 900 and of his assess
ments at $4,000, which amounts were
to include all travelling and Office ex-
penses. The appointees, D. D. Bogart
and E. W.. Stetson, went into office
March, 1905, and continued until
M arch, 1897. The annual cost for SAL
aries and expenses under Governor
Richards was $1,000.
The 1897 legislature fixed salaries
at So, 500 and 81, 500, but made addi-
tional appropriations to cover travel
ing and Office expenses. The present
incumbents, appointed by Governor
Toole, are W. Hudnall and Assistant
F. H. Ray, who have filled the Office
since March, 1901. The average an
nual cost of the office under Governor
Toole has been $500, or 81, 800 PER
YEAR LESS than under Governor Rick
ards.
Work Increased; Expense Reduced.
Prior to 1895 there was no uniform
system in the county Offices, and Mr..
Bogart is entitled to credit for inaugu-
rating uniform system of accounting
in % counties. His report for year
ending November 80, 1895, shows that
the ex aminer had to examine and re-
port on % counties, 9 banks, 6 state
Offices, and two state institutions.
AS showing a very large increase,
contrast with the above, the Ninth An
aua1 Report Of State Examiner, for
year ending November 80, 1908, in
which Examiner Hudnall says: ''Dur-
ing the past year this Office has made
personal examinations and repoyted
on 70 counties, 20 banks, state
Offices, state board, building aHd
loan association.
The increase of 3 coanties, 10 banks,
and l state Office does not fully meas
ure the larger amount of work, be-
cause the volume of business done in
county and state offices Mas markedly
increased since 1856, consequently
the examiners labors in each office
have correspondiDgly increased.
Tho growth I'm banking department
is over 800 per cent in number, and
the increase i'm volume of business is
Indie ated by the fact that the total re-
sources of the = state banks, as re-
ported October 8, 1895, S. 421, 557. %
is now exceeded almost a million
dollars by single bank, the State
Savings of Butte.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-27
Delinquent Taxes.

In 1901 the examiners office began
systematic collection OF taxes then
delinquent, some of which had been
owing for ten years, and inaagurated
an improved method of accounting such
taxes. The total collection of these
old delinquent taxes Chose delinquent
prior to 1901, onlyl was up to- Novem-
Der so, 1908, $94, O36. So. This sum will
be augmented more than $4,000 by
collections made this year. The above
does not include a dollar of taxes
which became delinquen, during the
incumbency of the present appointees.
but is for amounts owed when they
went into office.
This office also saved the state more
than the annual salary of both it's in
cumbents in the matter of interest cou-
pons OH bonds issued by the Arid
Land Grant Commission. In check
ing payments made to contractors the
the office held that s., $50 in interest
coupons had been wrongly issued and
these were recovered and cancelled.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-27
Back Taxes and Licenses.

The examiners 1908 report shows
that at his request test suits were be-
gun IN 1901 against the r. M. B. Tele-
phone company for license that they
refused to pay, which after being car
ried to the supreme court were decided
in favor of state and resulted in the
collection of So, 34a. back licenses and
thereafter company to pay the statute
license.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18

nature of lectures on Ethics and association with
high minded ladies and gentlemen, thrown in as
part of the punishment?
sThat wouldn't be bad idea" said the Idiot, but
willing to credit you with the honor of its adj
vancement. A sort of penal University where con-
yicted criminals could study Ethics would be an eN-
cellent thing, too, under expert management. You
could divide your inmates into the four classes
Freshmen. Sophmores. Juniors and Seniors. and let
the sentences Of students depend upon their own
efforts in passing their examinations In that way
could so through Sing Sing in four years and
come out with Bachelors Degree in Morals if he
applied himself assiduously his studies. If ne
nunks, keep him there, they do at Yale and Har
ward, until he has mastered Common Honesty and
respect for other peoples right to their own prop
erty. This I say, would not be bad scheme.
but there is still better The trouble with the
Waldorf Astoria scheme and that of the Penal Uni
versity would still be of the offenders assoca-
with others of inferior character In such insti
buttons it would be almost. if not wholly impossible
keep the artistic and highminded malefactor free
from Communicating contact with the ordinary GRIM
inaL Nor is there among any of the schemes for
prison reform that I have ever seen advanced any
proposition that successfully and the
evil Of association"
1T can't be overcome" said the Doctor. Unless
you build private houses for under sentence and
set 'em up at housekeeping.
"Oh 1 don't know said the idiot There is d
way out of every hole that fate digs for mortas
here AS I see it there is logical and feasible plan
system We know that the gathering of large bodies
of criminals together is not good thing for them.
Therefore let us separate them. Well how? Just
as a politician said the TO reform is to re-
form, so the way separate is TO separate. So,
when a man is convicted of crime sentence him
years incarceration in an elevating environ
ment. We for instance, have in this house an IN
occupied hall bedroom which Mrs Pedagog is doing
her level best to rent Why should she not advertise
accommodations in elevating Surroundings for one
forger second story man shopfter? Some Justice
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18

me then as it does now that such associations as
man contracts in the prison environment neither
moral nor uplifting. One of the prisoners put it
pretty well when he said he mighty glad the
keepers kept his cell door firmly locked all the time
because he had it, he had such suspicious char
acters for reghtiors. OF them, on side being
a pickpecket and the other, the other side being
an expert shopfter and seconds STORY We just
have to keep everything under lock and key all the
time, SIR he said to me-"
Great Scott" cried the Doctor What snob
May ask, pray what your friend doing there?"
He doing time" replied the idiot 'for
forgery He intellectual criminal and looked
down upon the mere thief as a vulgar offender. But
the whole point lies in the matter the association
of these criminals of one kind and another There is
question about it that contact with the vulgar
takes the ineness out of man, and it doesn't seem
quite right that a fellow with lofty ideals the
matter of methods, who has done all
his life long to keep in the higher walks of crime
should be compelled by the State subject himself
a vugarizng association that only serve to
drag him down to the level of the common herd
There should at least be discrimination. If
for instance you to put the composers of Par
sifaI and Hiawatha trial for assault and find them
both guilty of promiscuous earsptting. it would be
manifestly unjust to put them both in the same
prison pen for their offense since the Partial man
would suffer far more deeply from association with
the Hiawatha man than the Hiawatha man would
from contact with the Parsifal man. Moreover1
though technically the crime the same, the Hia-
piano organs and side bands his victims cannot
escape his assaults While in the Of the COM
poser Parsifal the sufferers have deliberately by
paying 81 for their seats, provoked the assaultare
indeed constructively accessories before the fact
what in thunder would you have then?" de-
manded the Lawyer DO you want to send your
criminal offenders to sort of penal WaldorfAstoria
where, according to the artistic quality of their Of
Tense, they may have apartments assigned to them,
with special privileges of Informative the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18
The Best Way To Cook Trout

l(I f there is one thing I like better
than another" said the rural
philosopher, 1t is the eating of
trout after it is cooked. No. no;
don't mean 20 say that I would eat a
trout before It was cooked. Not at
all But I mean 10 say that you and
! and the next man have eaten many
q trout that was supposed to be cooked,
but which wasn't. any more than q
juicy beefsteak is cooked when il is
fried. and fried in store lard at that
and fried until you can't tell wheth-
er it's a cut Of beef or a piece Of liver.
That's what I mean TO say.
In the first place. they don't go at
1t right. When they set hold of the
fish-even if it hasn't been a day or
so out Of water. lying stiff on the ice
or with its inside stuffed with salt
our women folks go straight to work
and souse 1t in water: wash il and
wash it; rip it open as if il were a
seam in an old garment they were max
ing over; and then drench it's insides
until il looks like a piece of bob veal
can't tell whether Il is a lucious trout
or a bOny sucker. and no matter if 1t
is a -pOundeT-WhiCh, as a matter
OF fact. ii is not likely TO be nova
days. if you stick TO the truth-slap!
it goes into the frying pan. with a
slice or two OF pork: and there it siZ-
zies ana sizzles and snaps its juice
ever the stove. and gets hard on the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18
By John
KendriCk Bangs
The Genial Idiot Discusses Prison Reform R R ha b

,tic;,g the advertisement could sentence the next
offender that comes before him TO ten years III tlat
and we, instead Oh MaSss Sua -, %
at meals in frivolous conversation could Dehu al our
energies 10 restoring the to liking for the pet
ter life"
He'd escape said the Lawyer
He wouldn't want 10" retorted the Idiot NOT
from this place with comfortable lodging, hrsteiasS
board. .broled chicken sunday mornings anu pueA-
yheats every day to say nothing OF our society al no
cost to himself save good behavior or course ne
have to be watched carefully for a 1.-THE Nile "lI1
he came to realize the advantages OF MS postum" U1
that could easily be arranged. a ProNlso III Ais So
tenca haf he should report al Police MISSIONARIES
e,-arv. t1errrr,r- and eIAening would make u easy
enough to keep him under Surveillance Ana 50 WIN
others There are countless families OF refned or
der from one end OF the country 10 the p'"eI. -
take the boarding houses out OF it atogether whose
I,, rsa * their inability to make both ends meet
One boarder would smooth their way 10 hiailcial
peace Let each one Of these then take peHsI 80
or for whose accommodation, the state VIII pay H"
sornalx and vet save money because IL no longer Is
oaired IN maintain the big central prisons One
man can be sentenced FIVE years with clergy
mans family in Hohokus, another 10 seven years anu
six months in the household OF TWO s1Is1els ~ |
5,Iced circumstances at Pnnxatawneyj and so on
There are plenty Of empty rooms IN ths lal.u ua1
would be available, and in every case u "ouo leSH
in the actual sequestratiOn OF the prisoner anu Ms
subsection to the influences Of the moral rather '0
the criminal life"
Rubbish cried the Bibiomaniae AS penai'y
for crime YOU would send the criminal to life OF
luxury and ease
..r,aseqa retorted the Idiot Ease. Ny dear sir
there is no harder la Dor this world than that which
is involved effort 70 live new me
IT don't know that" said the Biblonaniac
.NJo doubt." said the Idiot Because You never
tried it, Try to reform just once, Mr. BIB ana you
! see"
Copyright 1904. by X H. Holmes
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18

outside, remains half raw on the inside,
and smells more like a sausage when
IL is served than it does like the sweet
scented, quivering. sparkling thing you
draw out Of the eddying pool just
at the foot Of the swift bend in the
brook
And. right here, come to think OF
it, is another reason why a trout Is
hard to cook. because half of the cook.
ing OF trout lies in the killing of it.
How's that? Well. I'll tell you
You are camping for a day or two
on your favorite creek. You reach
your camping place late in the after
noon, and by the time you get things
in shape you are little two tired to
let the trout know that you have ar
rived that evening, and you bunk IN
on your bed Of fresh cut hemlock
! boughS and before you have heard the
is out beyond your cabin and making
the hush of the gathering darkness seem
/ darker with his plaintive note, you
| hold you are asleep.
When you awake far in the east
a saffron tint is heralding the morning
You go out and look around and swell
] your lungs and say:
| All, this is glorious
Then you dig your fireplace. YOT
dig it a foot deep and as wide as yor
! please. You dig it in the messy spo
! at the foot Of the great old rock onil
a step or two from the cabin. Their
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18

YOU prefer to have your son-if you had one-spend
his years at Newport Sing Sing, studying morals
manners2"
That's tough problem. Mr.. idiot" smiled the
Lawyer 'and the fact that l do not have TO solve
il and that in so far as affects and mine it
is purely academic question reeonciies me to the
idea of passing through life childess and alone
You are wrong there" retorted the Idiot. THE
State, sir, is the Father Of all of and you
integral portion of the State, small and insignificant
you must accept of the responsibilities
Of paternity which nhere in the State. Physically
you indeed childless fororn, but in the alb
stract the obligations of citizenship involve those of
fatherhood. You should therefore try at least to
solve the probleras which affect the welfare of the
community
Well ,then--what you'd you do If you had
SOM" demanded Mr. Brief. Would you send him to
Newport or Sing Sing to study manners and morals2
yours?" he added, with triumphant glance about
the table.
Why laughed the Idiot Il wouldn't send him
to either. any than would ask him to go to a
drug store to buy ton of coal dispatch him to
my corner grceers in search of the Works OF Robert
Browning in words of one syllable. If am
bilious to have him acquire expert knowledge OF
Divorce and make him a winner at the game of Pro-
gressive Matrmony it would be Newport for him;
or if cracking safes negotiating other peoples
checks signed by himself TO be his chosen pro-
fession it would be Sing Sing Joliet, MOyamensing or
any other of the leading schools in criminology.
Somehow other If 1 had my choice between the
Divorce Court the Criminal Court with my son
the defensive should incline matter of per-
sonsl the latteFbut this all apart from the
original proposition advanced by this editorial writer
in the Screecher. He maintained that Prisons
schools of crime and demands urgent reforms,
and have reason to- believe he is right. went 10
States Prison and it was simply filled with
hard characters. Out Of the 1S0G residents in the
community there was hardly one who had not been
convicted of crime other, and IL occurred to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18

ether plunge when he sees you, There
he comes! An, the beauty of him.
Your nett Aha He's yours
Then you run your fingers through
his gills and bear him TO the cabin.
You lay him, the untouched bloom upon
him, lightly on the moss. There IS
surely sweet fern growing near. for you
can smell II. Perhaps there is also d
clump or two of spicewood. If there
is, all the better.
$50 you pick some sprigs of sweet
fern or spicewood, or both, and put
them at the side of the trout. You
take piece of clean brown paper.
which you surely have brought with
you-the old fashioned rough brown
paper. You cover the paper thick with
the butter and sprinkle pepper and
salt on It.
In this paper. thus prepared. you
wrap the trout just as he came from
the water, quarter OF an hour ago.
Then you wrap some sprigs of the
sweet fern or spicewood about the pa
| per, enclose 1t all in two or three thick
nesses more-of the brown paper, and
/ bury your herb-enshrouded trout IN
| the hot ashes. Then you go TO the
creek and indulge in soothing ablution
! in its impid waters, after which you
take that little fiat bottle Of yours,
walk over TO the spring, and tampeT
with the bottles contents gently.
by the time you have returned to
! the cabin and cut your bread and
| started your coffee to brewing, you mas
! think of uncoyering your breakfast
| from the ashes. When the trout comes
out and you have removed its wrap
pings, it looks SO much like it did wheT
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18

you build a hardwood fire and keep 1t
going, so that by the time you have
your flies tied on and everything Is
in shape for going over and trying
the impatient brook, you have q foot
deep, almost. of the cleanest, hottest
Goals and ashes that ever snapped and
glowed and waited TO be used.
You find the brook Just right. While
you are looking it over a green-winged
fly drops on the water. In spite of his
struggles, the ripples bear it along un-
iii it circles around the edge OF the
big rock that divides the brook just
below you.
The green-W winged fly circles around
the edge of the proud old rock. You
see a fash in the water. and for sec
ond or so the smooth surface Is
troubled and foamy. The green-winsed
fly is gone.
AHA! you say. IF you take mine
like that, old fellow, you are lost"
Then you drop your flies away be-
low the rock and dance them up along
its messy side. Flash WhiZz! That
is he! You have him. Your black
gnat is in his jaw!
Now he goes down stream like q
steam enginel Follow him and follow
him quick, il he leads you a mile
Hold on. Hold on! Back he comes
! againi Reel in, And don't hold you
rod so low. Straighten it upl Straight
| en- il up. THERE Now let him woi'
| ~ himself in that deep pool if he will
/ That's it, He is a game one, is tina
| king of the brook, but ne is con
J quered! Now he will follow your lin
/ as you reel in. Gently, though. for n
will give another surge and take an
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18

An old chef of the sea, schooner
cook who has sailed worldwide, says the
New York World. fell to gossiping the
other day, down near Market street, on
the art of smuggling. the recent discovery
of false bulkheads on steamers hiding
rich goods having suggested this line OF
reuiniscence.
"A man on the Plate game n1e two
boxes Of cigars when I was running or
the steamship America into Liverpool. and
| wished to give them 10 friends, for
myself always smoke a pipe" he began.
In England they pay particular atten-
put each box III the center of a batch
Of dough and baked the outside. The in
speetor that came aboard had a trident.
He came into the galley ana began TO jab
his trident into each loaf or freshly baked
bread in the racks overhead He kept
nearing my cigars. and I saw I lad got
to think and act quick
F." Here, boys says !, take these 'ioaves
aft, passing out the two boxes IN the
/ heart Of the bread.
Hold on a minute says the inspector
7 hadn't jabbed them lOaVes
Now, I don't know as 1 fancy your
1 handling over my bread says 1 quick
like. Those leaves belong to me, am
/ I'm going to eat them myself / don
know as I want your hands on them.
"'Oh. if that's the case, says he, lei
! EN- stay aft ] was safe
! when 1 was a steward ON the CHy Of
l New York now the New York boy col
lected the candles from the staterooms
and I was burning the stub Of 4 wax can
die in the glory hole, wheA 1t began 4
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18
~ JOBS KENpRaIelK RANes.
HE DISCUSSES PRISON REFORM.


Ga a. r. BRIEF" said the Idiot, as swallowed
W. the last remaining morsel of his sixteenth
almost-buckwheat cake. and picked up the
editorial section Of the Sunday screecher have you
ever been in jail?'
Most assureGiy not. sir" replied the Lawyer
Why should you ever suggest such thing?"
Il am in search of enlightened opinion on the
subject Of Prisons that's all" said the Idiot I
observe that The screecher this morning has more
or less lengthy article on the Degeneracy of
the Prison and somehow or other it reads like the
work Of man who knows what he is talking about
You can see between the lines it is the written
expression OF who has suffered and while there
Is no announcement to that effect the Screechers
columns anywhere, inclined to believe that it's
author is just out after term Of four or five 10
fifteen years. 1t occurred to that at some period
OF your career you might have been behind the bars
long enough
Really, Mr.. idiot. there are times when you are
insuherable. Interrupted the Lawyer 81 defy any
man In this any other world TO put his finger upon
any wrong doing of mine that
oh, Tutt Mr. Brief" put in the Idiot with a
laugh. 1 didn't mean a resident-as visitor Of
course to some client or other"
"oh-ah-yes-welI,' said Mr.. Brief well yes
have been in jail in that capacity-of course. What
lawyer has not?"
You may search me-" said the Idiot Il don't be-
lieve there's lawyer who /hasntor least oughtn't
to have been. Do you believe from your observation
of these institutions that they the Agencies of
old man, Beelzebub himself and that they spell perm
anent ruin TO the inmate?"
Well of course" said Mr. Brief "of course YOU
know the Society of the Prison House is not Of the
best. If I had I should hardly send him
10 States Prison to study and morals He
would do better at Yale or Harvard"
How about Newport" asked the Idiot. Would
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-18
The Wrong Transfer.
kansas City Journal.)


Seymour Rice tells this one. He says
it happened on Twelfth street car
yesterday, going east. A handsome
young woman sat on the rear seat, and
when the conductor came through for
fares and transfers she opened her
chateiaine bag and from its omnovo-
rous depths drew what she supposed
was her transfer, and handed ii to the
man with the cap.
The latter took it and scanned it at
tentively. 1t was printed: Transfer
Slip all right, but instead OF being
good fQf one ride, it was o. X. for one
corset, a pair Of hose, and some other
articles of women's lingerie.
The conductor blushed as he handed
it back, and 30 did the young woman,
as she saw what she had done. She
paid a nickel and got off at the nex'
corner. her face a beautiful sunset
crimson.
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it left the water and lay quiverinS
and flashing IN the grass that you can
scarcely believe that it is dead, and
not only dead, but cooked.
"You take your sharp knife and cut
the trout open in the belly. There are
it's 1nnards' shriveled up into a lit
tie wad. They all come away togeth-
er, and your trout is as clean as can
be- and none OF it's naturalness gone.
And then when you sit down and eat
that trout, you are eating trout that
is cooked, and if you don't believe It
try it once. Buffalo Express.