Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-02-22
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montana Editors
Say!
During the cold spell which held
SWAY in Montana for the naSt two

During the cold spell which held
sway in Montana for the past two
weeks, one of the places upon the
map which felt the chill was Chester,
on the Great Northern in Chouteau
county. One morning when the mer-
curry was working upon sliding
scale, there were rumors of frost from
Chester way. but nothing in an Off
cial way. The weather man at Ches-
ter operates also the keyboard in one
of Jim Hills regular, red painted, re-
frigerator station buildings. Several
calls for weather went in from Havre,
and finally the Chester man gave an
swer, 40 below zero in the house, and
I'm if I'm going outside to see
how cold it is there" 1t was cold up
Chester way-Great Falls Leader.
Most of the members of the legis-
lature should be pretty we'll informed
by this time, what the drift Of public
sentiment is regarding the graft of
the state game warden and his dep
uties. The creation of that particular
expensive bureau certainly was never
either demanded or seriously contem-
plated by the people, and if the meas
vote of the qualified electors of the
state it would have been killed beyond
all hope of future resurrection in much
less time than it took to pass the USE
less and unpopular measure by the
legislative assembly.
The game protective law, with it's
regular biennial changes, may be all
right enough in principle and purpose
kpt enhancement
safely entrusted to the sheriff and his
deputies of the various counties of
the state as any other penal statute,
and thus the state could be saved a
needless expenditure of 100000 to
1925, 1000 a year now paid out for the
support of a heightened game war;
den and his small army of useless
| deputies.
And the most remarkable feature of
this sinecure game warden business
is, that it requires special annual
tax levy on all the assessable property
in the state to support it-a tax levy,
too, that is believed by the best in
formed citizens of the state. to be
wholly unconstitutional and illegal. II
that tax levy is not both unjust and il
legal, why is it that the state author
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collection in Dawson county, a county
which has steadfastly refused to pay
the tax since the enactment of the
unconstitutional law, knowing that the
payment was optional with the tax
payers and could not be enforced In
any court of competent Jurisdiction
l-Bozeman Avant-COurier.
From various places in the live
stock sections of Montana come to the
Record kilograms that the cattle ant
sheep are coming through the winter
in excellent condition. In no in
stance has there been sent to this of
fee reports of material losses. Thu
fact is that The Records correspond
ents-reliable to the last degree-ar'
unanimous in their testimony that tn
winter range situation in this stat
was never better. That is source
of qualification not only to livestocl
growers, but as we'll to all of tn
people of Montana.
During the winter the snowfall ha
been light and the range animal ha
found grass without difficulty. Grow
ers have provided their corrals witt
hay in abundance, so that, If emergen
. cy arise, they are prepared to NEE
the issue. Immense places for She
ter have been built.
) Even during the extremely coll
weather that came upon Montana dul
ing the last week, stock suffered lii