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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12
PETER KOCH RETlRES.

At the annual meeting of the execu
tive board of the State Agricultural
College held in Bozeman last week.
Peter Koch resigned as secretary and
treasurer of the board and was sue
ceeded by George Cox, cashier of the
Mr.. Koch has been a member of the
executive board and college ever since
it was organized nearly fifteen years
ago During this whole period Mr.
Koch has devoted much time and en-
ergy in the work of building up the
Agricultural college and making it an
institution in which all Montanans
take a pardOnable pride. In large
measure the success of the college is
due to his untirng efforts.
In appreciation of Mr.. Koch's SER
vices the board adopted the following
resolutions expressive of its senti-
ments and regret upon his retirement:
"That We regret the retirement Of
Mr. Koch from this board after his
long, faithful and acceptable service
thereon and as secretary and treas
urer thereof. @and of the college. He
/ became member Of the board and
secretary and treasurer of the college
at its institution. He found a college
existing on paper only without profes
sors. pupils, buildings or site.
From the condition of chaos ant
uncertainty then existing has beer
gradually evoleved the splendid insti
!, tuition which now exists. and TO thu
! wise foresight patience, sagacity an.
/ energetic knowledge and ability of Nj
Koch is the present condition of III
, college largely due. To him more than
any other man is due its success an
, commanding position among tn
; educational institutions of the state
and the institution itself and the pee
pie of the state owe him debt o
! gratitude for faithful, intelligent an
| devoted service which they can neve
f repay; and the pleasant relation
. which have always existed betwee
= him and his fellow members of tn
} board make it doubly pleasant to us i
= recording in this manner to som
slight extent our appreciation of hi
: services as a member of the board an
! onr regard for him as an individual.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12

Just what effect the revelations in
the Chicago packing houses are going
to have on the cattle and sheep grow
ers of the west remains to be seen.
That it may work temporary injury to
the live stock market is quite probable,
exposure followed by legislation that
will require strict government inspec-
ton of the plants and meat products
Will have a most salutary effect in
restoring confidence among consumers.
Furthermore, ii is to the interests of
the packers themselves that they at
business they have lost by correcting
the abuses that have existed. No sane
person believes that the conditions
We're as bad as Upton Sinclair de-
scribei them in his magazine article.
which was designed TO be sensational.
although he will be given credit for
bringing about an investigation by the
government that found the situation
bad enough. Ii is in the canned products
lhat the market will be affected the
most, but the prejudice against them
will gradually disappear under rigid
inspection, as there is no denying the
fact they have held a high place among
consumers, who have generally regard
"a them as clean and wholesome. Mon
tana cattle and sheep generally 80 to
market with clean bill of health and
il would he unfortunate if growers
are made to suffer through the ayarice
trust at whose hands they have al
ready lost money enough.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12

"Butcherknife Bill is dead and
buried at Billings. He is said TO have
been something of a. ''cut-up' in life.
but bullet finally put an end to his
career.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12

We trust the Fourth Of July will moi
be quite as raw" as some of the days
We have had in June.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12

Remember the Republican smoker
next Saturday night
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12
Published tuesday and Friday BY
JOHN N. YR0OMAN, Editor rand Proprietor
HALSEY R. WATSON, Business Manager

Entered as second-class matter July
3, 1905, at the postoffice at Lewistown.
Montana, under the act Of congress OF
March 8, 1879.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12

to hear. The old trail blazer snouid
be given hearty greeting
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12

Subscribers failing to receive their
papers will please notify this office,
that the cause may be investigated and
reported to the proper authorities.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12

(Sighed) HALSEY X. WATSON,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9Th
day of June, 1906.
(Sea) g. w. COOK
Notary Public in and for Fergus County.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12

OFFICIAL PAPER OF FERGUS COUNTY
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
Hiuh Schools in Every County.

Superintendent-elec Gunnells has
taken charge of the new movement
that aims to give every county at least
one high school in which boy can be
fitted to go to any college in this state,
or even to any of the universities out
side of Alabama. AS President Alder
man of the University of Virginia ex-
pressed it, three-fourths of the boys in
the southern states have no open road
TO the highest place in our educational
systems.
True, high schools should not pre-
cede primary schools, but in localities
where primary schools are well started,
the new movement should secure the
support of all who desire the upbuild-
ing of the state. First of all, there
should be schools in which every child
in this state can secure the rudiments
of an English education. Mr.. Gunnells
mas no lnUenllOl Vi lSdulIS d ulSh-
school propaganda where primary
schools are neglected. The high school
must necessarily ave primary schools
to rest upon.
A bill is to be laid before the legisla-
ture to raise the standard of work in
many localities. 1t may not help the
larger towns of the state, but it GER
tainly will promote education in the
lesser towns, and it will do this with
out doing any injury to the states pri-
mary schools, which are the states
best hope against illiteracy and gen
eral ignorance. There is no reason
why Mr.. Gunnell's bill should encoun-
ter opposition from any one, for he Will
in nowise impair the efficiency of the
primary schools, or lessen the funds
that go to the small school districts of
the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
Net debt

Boston is becoming alarmed over its
bond issues, which are of course tax
upon all property and all industries
and all branches of business. The sub
ject has become an issue in Boston.
The bonded debt of Birmingham is
$2,924 900, and if the present popula-
ton of the city be estimated at $4,000,
the per capita debt stands at s46.50, Or
just about the average debt of Ameri-
can cities other than Boston and New
York. The interest burden in this city
is 1929, 400, but this will be reduced as
soon as the bonds bearing more than
per cent in interest can be refunded
Some of our bonds yield to shrewd in
vestors Z per cent, and many more c
per cent.
Our debt burden is all right, for the
growth of the city will steadily make
it lighter, but we should see that it is
not materially increased while the city
has less than 100000 people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
Paper from Cotton Stalks.

Montgomery capitalists declined to
put $4,000 of the currency of the realm
into an untried plan for turning cotton
stalks into paper and various by-prcd-
ucts, and no plant will therefore be
established in Montgomery in the near
future. But the recently organized
Cotton Stalks Products company is Sc
curing ample capital, and much prog
ress has been made in putting up a
5000 900 plant in Philadelphia. This
plant. SAYS the New York Commercial
will begin actual operations by August
| next. The reports from Philadelphia
show that at the Philadelphia plant ce-
markable Roadway has been made,
hindered solely by the inability of the
shops to furnish mechanical equip
ment promptly. All machinery build
ers are overrun with orders, and this
alone delays the completion of the
plant in Philadelphia.
The plant in Philadelphia will dem.
onstrate the practicability or impractt-
cability of the new process. At the
best it will, however, be far away from
the 30,000,000 tons of raw material left
in the fields of the cotton pickers. But
as soon as the process has vindicated
itself the Philadelphia company pro-
poses to build plants in all the states
near the centers of stalks. An officer
of the Philadelphia company recently
said: "Of the 100000 required for the
initial expenditures, eastern capitalists
have already subscribed 100000, and
we expect to receive assurances within
the near future from southern invest
ors that the remaining 100000 also
has been subscribed. This money is
secured by per cent preferred stock
at par, and with each snare of pre-.
ferred stock the purchasers receive a
bonus of five shares OF common stooA,
the par value of which is fixed at $40
a share. Later we propose to increase
our capitalization TO $15,000.O0O, Of
which $4,000 900 will be in preferred
and S12,000,o00 in common stock"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
Seeth Cardinals immigration Efforts

Commissioner Cole Z. Watson OF
South Carolina actually succeeded in
landing a shipload of immigrants at
Charleston, and in placing them in the
cotton mills of South Carolina. This
daring infringement upon the rights
of the east and the northwest mas
called down upon him the enmity of
large interests. In some way the
American Federation of Labor has
been induced to fight the movement,
although it is difficult to see how labor
is hurt by diversion of one shipload
from New York to Charleston. Why
does it not attempt TO block immigra-
ton at New York?
The government, too, has been in
duced to oppose immigration to South
Carolina, and the Ellis Island officials
seem to be ready TO listen to any tale
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29

that will put an end to South Carolina
efforts to procure immigrants. But all
these obstacles will be swept away, for
Commissioner Watson knows the
United States immigration laws, and
he has kept we'll within their terms.
The interests that are fighting South
Carolina are fighting a losing battle.
Commissioner Watson has found
places for the malcontents who came
over in the first shipload landed at
Charleston, and all are contentedly at
work in South Carolina. He is now
securing a lot of Dutch farmers whom
he is engaging at Ellis Island, and in
the last days of December a second
North German Lloyd ship will arrive at
Charleston with several hundred Ger
man immigrants. Commissioner Wat
son is succeeding where others have
failed. He goes ct the matter in II
business way, and his success is TN
doubted.
The solicitor of the department of
commerce is said TO be considering the
legal aspects of the South Carolina
movement, but if he decides in favor of
New York and against the rest of the
country, an appeal should be taken at
once to Congress, and the question
decided at once whether the states
other than New York have any rights
that the federal government is bound
to respect.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Growing chrysanthemunns.

Flowers are an unending source of in
terest in their cultivation and their hy-
bridizing,n said Hugh Scales, the florist
THE ehrysanthemum is in all its glory
now and We can grow here in Rirmng-
ham as fine as there are in the world.
[ say this because I took six first prizes
at the worlds fair in Chicago, with flow
ers grown elsewhere. AS TO eoloring,
it is matter of hybridization by arti-
fetal means. When the flowers are full
blown the pollen of some particular speci-
men is transferred by a small brush or
similar instrument to the specimen to be
used. By this means new colorings are
made. There is never a purple or blue
flower shown from plants with yellow
blooms. such as the ehrysanthemum and
rose, for instance. In the cultivation of
choice chrysanthemums we use cuttings
from selected plants and begin in jan
uary to make ready for the fall show
ing of flowers. In prize showing the vari-
Gus features of the plant are rated by
percentage up to 100"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
PatriCk's Brave Fiuhf.

Albert r. Patrick has been in the
death-house in a New York peniten-
tiary four years. He was convicted CT
murder six years ago by jury that
remained out but four hours. And yet
when an appeal for rehearing was
taken to the highest court in New York
Patrick lost on a vote of 4 to 8. At
present he has an appeal to the United
States supreme court pending, but it is
believed a decision in that court will
be preceded by Communication of his
sentence by the governor of New York
TO life Imprisonment. After his convlc-
ton Patrick married his former land
lady, and her efforts in his behalf have
added romance to the case.
William Marsh Rice, an aged mil
lionaire, has been dead six years and
six months, and his valet, Charles f.
Jones, has long been an absentee.
Jones is proved liar, although he was
the chief witness for the prosecution.
The truth is, the case is full of doubts.
Patrick may not be murderer, but ne
is known to have forged Rice's name,
and it is known that he forged letter
ordering the cremation of Rice's body.
But what caused Rice's death has
never been clearly proven. Traces OF
poison were found in his body, but
Patrick claims those traces were due
to embalming fluid.
Altogether the case is remarkable
one. 1t is plain that Patrick is not to
go to the electric chair, and he really
hopes to secure a full vindication. He
is working steadily and clearly to that
end. No prisoner before him ever
stayed four years in the death-house,
where he saw thirty-two persons con-
Quoted to the electric chair. In that
respect he outruns all recorded OK
perience.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
ICED FRUIT PUDDING.


Beat the yolks OF six eggs very light
with one and one-half cupfuls of pow
dered sugar; pour gradually over them
one pint each of scaldng hot milk and
cream, and stir the mixture until it is
liquid. Return 1t to the double boiler
and cook, stirring constantly. until it
will coat a silver spoon: remove from
the fire. adding teaspoonful of vanilla,
and set aside TO cool. When cold turn
into a freezer, and stir until it begins
to thicken; then add one cupful of finely
chopped preserved peaches and one-half
cupful of finely chopped blanched al
monds Freeze until it is quite thick,
then turn into a mold. cover tightly,
pack in ice and salt and let stand for
three or four hours to ripen. At serving
time let the mold stand on the table in
the kitchen for few minutes until the
heat of the room has loosened the pud-
ding slightly. Turn it out carefully.
cover with sweetened whipped cream.
decorate with halVed preserved peaches
and a few strips of blanched almonds.
send at once to the table. and serve with
syrup of very rich preserved peaches.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
Inspecting Whisky.

After summarizing the facts. hitherto
II am glad that the pure food law
has in contemplation the regulating of
the manufacture of whisky" said a man
who takes his toddy
"The making of so-called rye whisky
from high wines and chemicals has
worked hardship on we old time fellows
who love to come through the rye to mel
low old age.
"Then there are other whistles that
are not what they are labeled. Do you
know that a marked difference in wine
and whisky is that wine begins to inn
prove in glass only-that is, bottled and
sealed-while whisky does not. If you
bottle whisky and seal it, it will be of
the same character when opened as the
day 1t was put up. Again, I say, give
us good whisky or give us none"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
JESSE JAMES, JRy IN COURT.
He Has His Brother-ln-Law Fined for
Using Horse.

Kansas City, Mo-, November 2s.-Jesse
James, Jr., a son of the famous outlay
of that name, was in police court today
TO prosecute his brother-in-law, Luther
permission and misusing it. MCGOWAN
pleaded guilty and said he had been
drinking.
"You are his brother-in-law; what do
you want me to do with him?' Judge
Kyle inquired of James.
"He ought to be fined; I believe in law
enforcement" said James.
Judge Kyle imposed fine of 500. James
was admitted to the bar year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
Fear Not.

Among the fears which have broken
out again and again, as to the future
welfare of this country is that our in
stitutions and national ideals might be
inperiled by the excessive introduction OF
new elements into our population" says
the Wall Street Journal. "But as often
as these alarms arise, the close observa-
ton of conditions proves that they have
but small grounds for their existence.
Both nature and history are against
the chances of injury of any of the sub
stantial interests of this country from
normal immigration. The native born and
the alien population are apt to be work
ing at much the same task, namely that
of building up their individual welfare
under conditions, laws and regulations
which give the individual the advantage
of the largest economic freedom. Econom-
ic freedom, in the form of fair play,
is the remedy for monopoly, whether
that monopoly be in the form of a labor
trust or a capitalistic trust.
at is a question even now whether, in
our governmental regulations, we have
not gone farther than necessary to pro-
tect ourselves against the undesirable
elements of incoming peoples. The labor
famine is partly the result of restrictions
which have undoubtedly discouraged
many from coming to this country.
Rather than run the gauntlet of vexa-
| tious cross-examination, they so to other
countries where they are welcomed as
an asset rather than to be considered as
a damage to the country in which they
seek their new home.
1T is reassuring TO have such a state
ment as the commissioner of industrial
statistics for the state of Rhode Island
gives in his annual report for 1906. On
this he says, referring to that common
wealth:
"It would be but natural to suppose
that in state where 80 per cent of the
population was born in foreign lands,
and where an even greater per cent of
OF the entire population is of foreign pa
rentage, that the result would be a So
cial unrest affecting labor and capital
alike. On the contrary, the class of immi-
grants, as a whole, who have settled in
Rhode Island and those native born chill
dren of foreign parentage who claim this
state as their home, have SO affiliated
with the balance of the population, that
an Industrial community has been built
up free from those disturbances which
reduced the profits of industry. thereby
preventing an equitable sharing of it's
legitimate gains
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
FASCINATION OF FooTLIGHTs.

From the London Express.
The frustrated marriage of Prince AL
brecht of Prussia with the actress Marie
Sulzer Baroness Liebenberg) is the lat
est instance of the fashionable fascination
the footlights have for the 'blue-blood-
ed young man. a fascination further il
Illustrated recently by the marriage of
Miss Camille Clifford.
In England, indeed, hardly a season
passes without some popular favorite
leaving the stage to adorn her brow with
the strawberry leaves" or the coronet
of a countess.
The aristocratic grandparents are in
clned to class this fascination under the
heading of the evils of the present CEN
tury. 1T was not so in my young days
is the stock maxim of the aged But as
regards the marriage of the aristocrat
and the actress this is an error
Generations ago men of fashion were
clapping their applause of "footight
favorite" one moment and asking her
hand in matriomny the next
The pioneer of stage marriages was,
perhaps, one Martin FollSes. an antiquary
and a man of fortune. An old magazine,
dated November, 1923, gives an account Of
Folkes' wooing, as follows;
The first person among the gentry who
ever took a wife from the stage was
Martin Folkes, the antiquary, who in
the year 17J3 took to wife Lucretia Brad.
shaw, performer of the sprightly hero
ines of Farquhar and yanbrugh. She
has been called lone of the greatest and
most promising genii of her time" and
Mr. Folkes made her his wife for exem-
piary and prudent conduct. She played
such lively parts as Corinna, in THE
Confederacy." and Angelica in THE
Constant Couple" She is a handsome
woman, Of good figure and but second
rate theatrical talent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
Center of Activity.

The Commercial club, under the adj
ministraton of President Robert Jemison,
Jr., is doing a great amount of practical
work. said a prominent citizen last
night. ut is really great center of ac-
tivity. For instance this afternoon three
important conferences or committee meet
ings were being held in the Commercial
Club building at the same time. and each
meeting was fully attended by represen-
tative men-the Greater Birmingham con-
ference, the committee on a chronological
school and the advertising and publicity
committee on the Southern Cotton con-
vention."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
Thanksgiving Travel.

THE tide of travel out of Birmingham
has been very large the past few days"
said a passenger station employee yester-
day. Tuesday was the beginning, but
today there was a full tide of travel made
up largely of those who are making a
RIM to visit relatives or friends or
are bound on outing trips. One man went
out with two reliable coon dogs for
a few days and nights of varmint' chas-
ing by the pale glimpses of the moon.
Many of the bird hunters are at their
favorite shooting grounds and they will
continue to go out on the early train of
Thursday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
OvercroWdine Cars.

Chicago, November ga record of 1872
persons killed and 221 others injured on
the surface and elevated traction lines of
Chicago since January last gave impe-
tus to the crusade against the overcrowd-
ing of cars which was begun by the Off
Gals of the city yesterday. The police,
afoot and mounted, will assume meas
ure of control over the operation of trac-
ton lines. Granting the expected per
mission" from the corporation counsel,
the force under Chief Collins will under
take the task of preventing the over
crowd of all IL trains and the blockad-
ing of surface cars within the loop, be-
ginning tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rom the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
1t must be a joy to be so rich you aren't
ashamed to confess you can't afford some
thing.
II u man has to be supported by his
wife and sisters he'll insist ON giving them
advice about making money
1t isn't the wages of the cooks that
count in the country, but the railroad
fares to bring new ones every day or
two.
A man going nome late from The cluh
has TO be very careful not to mistake inc
two lights of carriage for one street
lamp that looks double.
This Is the time of year a woman be-
gins To think what she needs most at
home. so she can buy it for her husbands
Christmas present from her and charge 1t
to him.