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Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26
Thousands of Bushels Being Hauled
to Various Elevators About the
County.
MANY HOLDING GRAIN
Local Grain Growers Not Falling
Over Themselves to Sell Products
at Present Price.

Although thousands of bushels of
wheat and oats are being hauled to
the elevators in this city, Moore and
other places about the county, large
number of the grain growers are
holding on to their grain in the hope
of striking higher market.
Holding for Higher Prices.
This is, of course. more or less of
a speculation but it is argued by many
grain growers that the price is more
likely to raise than to go lower. The
addition Of few cents to the price
of grain would mean thousands Of
dollars to the grain growers of Fer
gus county while the loss of few
cents would put the figures on the
other side of the ledger.
In this connection, the following
crat this week from reputable Min
neapolis firm, will be Of interest:
Liverpool closed 3-8 to IL lower on
vices, free offerings Of Russian and
new crop Argentine and Australian
wheat Argentine wheat acreage is
now estimated only 6 per cent. less
than year ago, against estimate of
10 per cent. decrease month ago.
Primary receipts, wheat, 100000
bushels, against 100000 bushels a
year ago. Export clcarances United
States and Canada, $4,000 bushels.
mostly Manitoba wheat Local stocks
wheat four days increase 10000
bushels. Local cash wheat demand
continues brisk Millcrs still busy.
New orders are, however, becoming
lighter. Winter wheat cash markets
are sharply lower today, especially in
St. Louis and Kansas City. Weather
unsettled.
Market started weak on lower
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26
farmers INSTITUTE
NOVEMBER 3Pd& & 9th
9 9 9 G 9 9 G 9 6 6 90 600

? Secretary Croft, of the local 9
2 Commercial Club, is now COM 9
= pleting all arrangements for the Q
> big Farmers Institute meeting 9
2 which will be held in this city 9
= next Wednesday and Thursday. @
2 The court room in the new coun- 9
2 ty court house has been secured 9
= for the meeting place and large 9
2 crowds are expected to attend 9
? the various sessions. The pro- 9
> gram was published in the last 9
= issue of the Democ and is cer- g
2 tainly most attractive one, in 9
= Guiding, as it does, some Of the 9
. greatest authorities in the Unit g
2 ed States on such subjects as dry 9
. land farming, stock raising, etc. 9
? Secretary Croft is making prepar- 9
. ations to have Haller's orchestra 9
2 furnish the music, the money to @
2 defray this expense being made 9
Z up by popular subscription. The 9
? first session will be held We'd 9
? nesday evening at eight o'clock. 9
. There will be another session 9
= Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock 9
. and the last meeting, Thursday G
2 evening at 8 o'clock. This meet G
Q ing Of the Farmers Institute is G
9 being very widely advertised and 6
8 those farmers and stockgrowers 8
g who attend are assured Of 6
9 course of entertainment and in 6
9 struction never equalled at any 6
9 Farmers Institute held in this 6
6 g Soc coo 600 oooo 6
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26

property to the value OF twenty thou.
sand dollars last Saturday afternoon
and Sunday morning. The sufferers
are M. B. Lytle, owner of elevators
at this place and in Moore, and Will
liam Cochran and ]. r. Merrilees,
owners of the farm where fire de-
stroyed large lot of machinery and
several out-buildings, including barn.
Sullivan Discovers Flames.
George Sullivan. who has charge OF
the Lytle elevator at Moore, and who
slept in the building, was awakened
about 3 o'clock Sunday morning by
an explosion and sat up to discover
the building all a6re. He barely had
time to get tip and gather together
the books before the flames filled the
room in which he had been sleeping.
The alarm was quickly sounded and
practically the entire population of the
city turned out to assist in preventing
the fire from spreading. By the time
the fire fighters got on the ground, all
chances of saving the elevator were
gone. The burning shingles were
blown on to buildings in all parts Of
the city and it kept the water carry
ing brigade extremely busy putting out
incipient blazes. Two cars loaded
with grain and standing on the rail-
road track by the side Of the elevator
with their contents. The depot was
afire i'll a dozen or more places but
was saved by hard work. Some OF
the burning pieces of wood we're car
ried all the way across the city to the
Christian church.
Heavy Loss; Some Insurance.
The elevator and cars which were
destroyed contained about fifteen
thousand bushels Of grain, mostly
wheat The greater portion Of the
grain was covered by blanket insur-
ance but Mr.. Lytle informs the Dem
ocrat that his loss will be between
five and six thousand dollars.
Ranchers Suffer Loss.
Another destructive fire occurred on
the ranch of Cochran and Merrilces
few miles southeast of Moore, Sat
urday afternoon. There was no one
but Mrs. Cochran at the place when
the fire was discovered in the barn
and there was nothing to be done but
to permit the flames to take their
course. The barn ,other ut-buildings
lot Of machinery, including com
bined harvesting and threshing ma
chine, we're destroyed There was no
insurance and the boys figure their
loss at about four thousand dollars
1t is hard blow on Billy and Jim
The origin Of both fires will likely
remain a mystery as neither Mr.
Lytle nor the ranch owners can figure
out how their property caught fire.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26
Some "Goat" Riders.

Some Goat" Riders.
Editor Sam Small. G. S. Bills and
H. D. Jones, of Judith Gap. rode the
Elks' goat in this city Thursday eve
ming.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26
Fergus County Will Be Well Repre-
sented at Great Dry Farming
Congress This Week.
A fine DISPLAY There
Assembled Thousands Will See Splen-
did Showing of Agricultural Pro-
ducts From Basin.

Eight or ten delegates from this
city to the Dry Farming Congress left
yesterday morning for Billings and
several others went out this morning.
The local delegation joined the bunch
from Moore, Straw and Garneill at
those places and met yet larger
party from northern Montana at Ju-
dith Gap.
Delegates From Lewistown.
Among those who went from this
city are S. S. Hobson, David Hilger.
J. B. Rauch, Judge F.. K. Cheadle.
Chairman julius Petersen, of the
Board of County Commissioners;
County Assessor John Marshall, and
Mr.. Romunstadt. Others from Lew
istown will doubtless get to Billings
before the congress adjourns.
With practically every town in the
county sending representatives, Fer
gus county will be represented at the
big gathering by large and enthu-
siastic bunch of boosters for the In
land Empire.
Fergus County Display.
A dispatch from Billings this morn
ing to the Democrat states that the
Fergus county display is attracting a
great deal of attention and is, without
question, one of the finest on the
grounds. Visitors are arriving in the
Sugar City from all parts of the
United States and foreign countries,
over twelve hundred delegates now
being on the ground.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26
At the Biiou.

An ecellent program IS on at the
Bijou for this evening. This will be
shown for two nights only, Tuesday
and Wednesday. AS usual, Lewis
towns Symphony orchestra played
the orchestra selections at this popu-
lar place to a packed house last Sum
day evening. Don't miss this interest
ing program tonight as it is good
one.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26
SILVER WEDDING BELLS.
Hon. and Mrs. David Hilger Cele-
brate Twenty-fifth Anniversary.

brate Twenty-hfth Anniversary.
Last Wednesday was the 25th
wedding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs.
David Hilger and number of friends
gathered at the Hilger home on
Roadway to join with the bride and
groom" in an informal celebration of
that happy occasion. In addition to
large number of other relatives and
friends, the father and mother of Mr..
Hilger were present, having come
down from Helena for the occasion.
The father and mother, Mr.. and Ms
Nicolas Hilger, celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary not so many
months ago and upon that occasion,
their son. David, presented his father
with a, handsome gold headed cane.
The father came right back at his SON
last week with fine silver headed
walking stick.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26

Continued on page S.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26
I. r, Miller Returns Home

]. r. Miller, who has been in the
city for several weeks visiting his
sons, Rudy and Cliff, left Sunday morn
ing for his home in Dubuque. He
was accompanied as far as Miles City
by Rudy who returned home today.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1909-10-26
FIRE DESTROYS
BIG ELEVATOR
Fifteen Thousand Bushels of Grain
Belonging to M. B. Lytle, Burned
Sunday.
Others ALSO SUFFER
Barn and Machinery of Merrilees and
Cochran Destroyed Saturday
Afternoon.

Two big fires, one in Moore and
the other on ranch few miles
southeast OF that place, destroyed
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-11-04
EXTENSIVE REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS
At INDEPENDENT REPORTER OFFICE
Best Equipped Office in Maine Changes Con-
templated for Benefit Of Big List

and Immediately in the rear o. this
will be The office of the editor of the
paper. A hallway will separate the
two main Offices in the building. The
Gated at the rear end of this floor and
near the linotype machine so that the
least amount of work is involved In
handling the type for the making up
of the newspaper forms.
After the forms are made up. they
are placed on a small elevator and
lowered to the basement of the
building where the new Whitlock
newspaper press has been located as
we'll as the newspaper folding ma
chine. Here also is located the mail
ing room, the racks which contain
the galleys of type with their over
five thousand names and addresses, a
larger list of subscribers than any
other county paper in Maine.
The installation of the new Whit
the growth of the paper. Neither of
the presses used by the two com
panies was adequate to handle
the large edition, and they have been
supplanted by a large and fast Whit
lock, having double the capacity. The
new press is placed on a solid cement
. t. L. s,,,
there is not the slightest vibration
felt from it in any part of the block.
BY the end of the present week it
is hoped that the carpenters and other
1orkmen employed in changing over
the plant will have completed the
work laid out for them to do We
shall then be glad to welcome visitors
and to show them the new quarters
and the improvements that have been
in progress. With these changes
which have meant the outlay of many
thousands of dollars, the owners of
the plant now feel that they have one
of the very fow best equipped offices
In Maine.
During the days of these changes
undoubtedly some Inconvenience has
been occasioned our patons. This will
prove but temporary however. In
the future, patrons of this plant can
be assured of the best possible SER
vice. Not only this, but within reas
enable time such changes and i'm
provements will be made in the make
up of the paper as will add much to
it's interest and general excellence.
For the forbearance of our patrons
during this time of material growth,
the management desires to express
it's grateful appreciation.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-11-04
RUMORs CONCERNING DEMOCRATIC GAM
D|DATE FOR GOVERNOR, 1910
The Bangor News and the Maine Democrat Dis
cuss Obadiah Gardner's Chances

sured, If Mr.. Gardner is given party
usage-it is downright and deliberate
party suicide to fail in naming him as
the leader in 1910"
And the Maine Democrat retorts az
follows:
The Bangor News in a lengthy edi-
torial endorses Obadiah Gardner as
the next Democratic nominee for COY
ernor. The Portland Express has al
ready committed itself to Mr.. Gard
ner's candidacy. Perhaps the recipi-
ent of the compliments which these
two papers bestow upon him would
feel as well toward them if they were
not so open in their advocacy of his
cause. There Is such a thing as oy-
erdoing a kindness and while Mr..
Gardner has strong hold on the af-
fections of thousands of Maine Dem
ocrats who appreciate fully his mag
nifieent campaign OF last year, too
much anxiety on the part of leading
fhtpuDllCdH newspapers, III HlS Deudil,
might cause them to wonder If it
would be wise to renominate him The
Greeks bearing gifts, do not, as a rule,
inspire confidence and Maine Demo-
Gratis are not likely to make up their
next years ticket purely to please the
Bangor News and the Portland Ex-
press. That Is not at all to say that
Mr.. Gardner Is not likely to be re-
nominated We think IL extremely
probable that he will be. But that
event is more likely to occur If the
Republicans who fancy him a weaker
candidate than some other who might
be named keep their desire to see
him nominated to themselves and re-
frain from letting the public know
too much about It, The News says
that the "Waterville spoilsmen" are
opposing Mr.. Gardner and are seek
ing to nominate him for congress In
order to get rid of him as guber-
material candidate. Probably every
other newspaper in Maine excepting
the News knows that Mr.. Gardner
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-11-04

doins 1S-yard line when a forward
pass was prettily taken by Erwin
who dodeed the end end sol touch
down Welch Kicked the goal. The
Colby mtn kept the ball IN Bow IONS
territory during the remainder of the
half but there was no more scoring
In the second hal; Bowdoin braeed
up and by strong PLAYING soon had a
touchdown with Kern in possession
of the ball Again BoWdoiI%worked
the bah to Colby's 3o-yard line, where
Smiths place kick failed by a few
inches to give them points. Then
plby again carried the ball into the
visitors territory and after being put
back 30 yards FOR holding they puuted
and BY Hamitons aid succeeded in
reco, eripg it On the 10 ward line from
whence lie easily went over the line.
This ended the scoring end Colby had
won by - to =, Both teams We're
quite heavily penalized the distance
for Colby being lle wards and for
BoWdoin 70 yards Nevertheless The
game was very exciting.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-11-04

docs not live IN the congressional dis
trict In which Watcrsille is located
The News evidently thinks either that
watervllie Is IN Knox county or that
Rockland Is in Kennebeo. either of
which suppositions II will find to b.
incorrect II 1t Will consult map. No
newspaper In Maine. excepting the
Lewiston journal. abused Mr. Gard
ner so yiciously during the last cam
paign. as did the News If he should
again become the Democratic stan
dard bearer il will repeat the per
Torrance. In fact IL could not get
through the complimentary editorial
referred to without insulting him
saying that he openly advocated the
gin mill and the saloon a particu
larly cheap and dirty thing for the
News to say of gentleman who stood
for resubmission considering that the
News is itself an advocate of the same
policy. But what is one to expect
from the News7
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-11-04
SURPRISING STATEMENTS RELATING TO
REOPEN|NG Of PAROCH|AL SCHOOLS
Causing Much Expense for So Short Time and
Trivial Reason Would Deserve Condemnation

Thu following rather surprising in
formation which We ind in the edi-
torial columns of a Boston exchange
Will be read with thoughtful interest
BY the citizens Of this town lHas=
much as the town has already gone
to large expense in its efforts to
handle the Paroohial school children.
it is sincerely hoped that the Sacred
Heart Review referred to by our eX-
change, is not an authority in the
matter:
The Sacred Heart Review. in re-
ferring to our editorial on the clos
ing of the Roman Catholic Parochial
school at Skowhegan, Me, states that
the school has only closed temper
arily because the Sisters in charge
were urgently needed elsewhere Our
statements were based on a careful
investigation made On the spot and
this reason for the closing of the
school was not mentioned By any one
of the several persons whom We con-
suited, and SO far as we know. was
not given by any of the local Roman
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-11-04
GUILTY OF CONTEMPT OF
COURT
GOmpers Says He VIII Fight to the
Last Ditch.

The District court of appeals Tues
day, affirmed the decree of the Su
preme court of the District of Column
bia adjudging President Samuel Com
pers, Secretary Frank Morrison and
Vice President John Mitchell of the
American Federation of Labor guilty
of contempt of court in the Buck
Stove & Range case.
The action OF the cuu.t in sentence
ing these men to II, nine and six
months Imprisonment, respectively,
was the result of the failure of these
three defendants to obey the order
of the court directing them to desist
from placing the Bucks Stove &
Range company of ST. Louis on theil
unfair list in the prosecution of their
boycott against the corporation.
Chief Justice Sheppard in his dis
senting opinion, held to the view that
the decree should be reversed. be-
cause he was convinced that the low
er court was without authority to
make the only order which the de-
PENDANTS, Gompers. Mitchell and Nor
rison, could be said to have dis
obeyed
Gompers has Issued a statement in
which he declares the case will be
fought to the last ditch.
James NJ. Beck, Of counsel for the
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-11-04

During the past few weeks some
very extensive changes and improve
ments have been going forward in
The independence Reporter office. With
the consolidation of the three papers
1t became necessary to secure larger
quarters for the machinery and for
handling the increased volume of
work. Several available places were
looked over but 1t was finally decided
by the management to keep the former
Offices of The Somerset Independent,
located on Russell street, and to Sc
cure additional composing room in
connection with the old offices. For
this purpose, the entire second floor
of the Merrill block, formerly occu-
pied by the Dyer Dry Goods store.
situated on Madison avenue, was leased,
a large archway leading from the sec
ond floor of the Russell street block
was cut through, and the large dis
play of job and advertising type there
assembled. The new composing room
is probably one of the largest and
most conveniently arranged that can
be found anywhere in the State 1t
is lighted by two large plate glass
windows facing on Madison avenue,
and the ceiling Is studded with num-
erous electric lights. Whether the
day be dark or light, it matters little
to the compostors, for the room is
always we'll lighted.
On the second floor of the Russell
street block, the several job presses
have been placed, this room also being
used for a stock room. This is also
splendidly lighted by numerous win
dows and electric light fixtures.
But the most extensive changes and
Improvements have been made and
are now being made on the first floor
of the Russell street block in which
the business offices are located Up
to last week, the improved linotype
machine, which has attracted so much
attention from the people, had been
located in the front window of the
room. This has now been moved to
the south corner of the building, di-
rectly in the rear of the editorial
office. Workmen are now busy con-
structing large commodious business
offices on the west side of the room.
MI
the business manager and steno-
grapher, and opening cut of this will
be a private office for the convenience
of the patrons of the plfnt. On the
east side of the room will be the Of
fees of the president of the company,
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-11-04
THURSDAY MORNINGS NEWS.

THURSDAY MORNINGS NEWS.
Wednesday night in Maryland the
result was still uncertain. The indi-
cations were. however. that the
amendment has been defeated.
This morning battle-scarred Tam
MANY, which yesterday elected a
mayor but lost city, took up the
gloomy work of getting its house in
order for four years of avowed anti
Tammany government in New York
city.
Today found the Democratic party
in possession of nearly all its ancient
heritage in Kentucky The next
Legislature will be Democratic by over
two-thirds majority and able TO pass
any measure over the Republican gov
ernor's Veto Late returns gave the
Democrats &c senators. Republicans
IL, and representatives. Democrats
60 Republicans %, with four dis
tricts yet TO be heard from.
San Francisco yesterday retired
Francis J. Henney, who has won ma
tional fame as prosecutor of the graft
cases here. and gave union labor an
other chance at running the city ad-
ministration. Estimates based on
count of so per cent of the total vote
are that Charles NJ Fickerts ma
jority over Heney will reach $1,000
and that P. II. Mccarthy the Union
Labor candidate for mayor was elect
ed by a plurality Of 5000.
In New Je|sey yesterday the Re
publcans held their own in the leg
islature. gaining three votes in the
senate to offset a loss of three seats
in the lower louise.
In Rhode Island the incoming SEN
ate will be 80 Republicans and five
Democrats and the House will stand
63 Republicans and nine Democrats.
The vote on the license question
throughout the state resulted in
gain of two towns for no license
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-11-04
THE ELECTION RETURNS FROM VARIOUS
STATES SHOW VARIED RESULTS
Republican Gov for Massachusetts but Tammany
Scores Triumph in New York

Elections were held Tuesday in
many states and cities throughout
the country, with varying results,
there being no national issue involved
to bring about concerted party ac-
ton. In Massachusetts the returns
show that Gov. Eben Draper, tRep.D
had been reelected over James H.
Vahey, DEM GOV. Diapers ma
jority last year was 10000
In Rhode Island, Governor Pothier
(Rep.) was reelected over Olney
Arnold, (Dem), by a substantial ma
jority
In New York city. which has been
the storm center of the state, Tam
many hall scored a decisive triumph
in the mayoralty election, Judge Will
liam A Gaynor, the Democratic nom
inee. supported by Tammany, rolling
up a plurality of upwards OF 10000
turn led William r. Hearst by APP
proximately $4,000. The result in New
York city was hailed with demonstra-
tive approval by the Tammany hosts.
In Philadelphia, another battle
ground on reform issues, Samuel P.
Rotan, (Rep.,) was elected district
attorney over d. Clarence Gibboney,
representing the Law and Order So
ciety and the reform element. Rotan's
majority exceeded that in previous
reform campaign. being estimated at
about 10000
The Pennsylvania state elections
for treasurer, auditor general and
judge of the Supreme court resulted
in the usual Republican majority. In
Maryland the constitutional amend
ment DISTINGUISHING the negro is still
in doubt, the Baltimore vote being
strongly against the amendment,
while returns from the interior indi-
cate increasing strength for the
amendment.
Mayor Tom Johnson, the pictures
que mayor of Cleveland, has been de-
feated for reelection by a decisive
majority by Herman Baker, tRep1
In Indianapolis where the temper