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The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

George Larter is laid up with a
badly crushed finger which he re-
ceived last week while taking a
draft timber out of car on the riI
track.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

Fireman Ira B. Stevens, who has
been laid up with appendicitis for
Rochester, Mimi, where he expects
to have an operation performed.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

A new type of ditcher, different
from anything ever seen in this sec.
ton has been sent here from ST
Paul. Supt. w. R. Smith is trying
it out on this division.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

Conductor w. w. Wolcott and
wife are in Spokane this week at
tending the apple show Mr.. Wolcott
has attended these apple exhibitions
every season since they were first
Started. Flathead products will be
on display, and he will ship boxes
of the delicious fruit to friends in
the east in order to demonstrate to
them what is produced in this fer
tile valley.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

Vern Marshal returned from Els
sex hill last Monday where he ha
been keeping time for an extr;
gang. He was accompanied by hi
brother, who was also working ther
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

w. H. Bernard, one of the Great
Northern passenger conductors run
ming on the Columbia Falls an(
Somers branch, came down this wee
for a few days hunting.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

The wrecking crew was working
on the hill for several days last
week and were picking mp the de-
rallied and damaged cars as far east
as Bombay.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

Bridge foreman z. D. Rienking
will go to Spokane to day to attend
the apple show.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES

'~S~O> >e>N~0N~~ w
Bert Young formerly a machinist
apprentice at the roundhouse, has
now taken a position on the riptrack
-.S.-
Fireman Vernon Larter is taking
a ten days lay off.which he is spend
ing at his home in Lancaster. Mimi.
s.nu Doiier Inspector Courtney nave
uech LII Town Tic pasI week.
-r35.-
Conductor Freu DOW leftTuesday
FOR Chicago, wnere he will join his
family VINO are spending the winter
lnere.
-e&.-
Several "a Lne extra gangs, work
ia LAc nlll nave uevn Auiu OH Oh
..ccvunt VI Lne wofh being nearly
completed.
Engineer Craig mas moved his
famlry here from spokane, and is
occupying the Earl orown residence
at Lakeside.
a. l.. Ihompsvn,tne time keeper
in the Great Northern storeroom,
will move his family here from Mar
Gus, Wash. i'll a short time.
-}.-
George Larter is laid up with a
badly crushed finger which he re-
ceived last week while taking a
draft timber out of a car on the rip
track.
The wrecking crew was working
on the hill for several days last
week and were picking up the de-
rallied and damaged cars as far east
as Bombay.
-
w. H. Bernard, one of the Great
Northern passenger conductors rum
ming on the Columbia Falls and
Somers branch, came down this weel
for few days hunting.
--..-
A new type of ditcher, different
from anything ever seen in this Sec
ton has been sent here from ST.
Paul. Supt. w. R. Smith is trying
it out on this division.
-.33.-
Vern Marshal returned from Es-
sex hill last Monday where he has
been keeping time for an extra
gang. He was accompanied by his
brother, who was also working Their
Fireman Ira B. Stevens, who has
been laid up with appendicitis for
The past six weeks, left Tuesday for
Rochester, Mimi, where he expects
to have an operation performed.
=
Twelve new engines passed thru
lcre the past week d astined for the
5. P. and S. Ry. They are all equip
ped with oil burners, and have all
all the other up-to-date appliances.
Fred Johnson, the section foreman
has purchased a four acre tract and
residence near the dam, formerly
owned by E. A. Southwick. The deal
was made through the Zufelt real
estate agency.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

Engineer Craig mas moved his
family here from spokane, and is
occupying the Earl Grown residence
at Lakeside.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

Rum0r has it that the Great Nor
thern will dOuble-track from Sum-
nit to Cut Bank as soon as the wea
Their is permissible in the spring.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

Riptrack foreman Edward Hayes
left Saturday evening for spokane
to assist in the naturalization of
his son Richard, who was supposed
to have been killed in the wreck of
the two freight trains at Milan :,
Wash ON the morning of the 9Th.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

~. l.. thompson, tine time keeper
in the Great Northern stOreroom,
will move his family here from Mar
Gus, Wash. i'll a short time.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

The Great Northern will put out
new time card in a few days, it
is said, which will effect trains No.
27 and 20 very materially, making
the crews of those trains lay over
here instead of Havre, as heretofore
it may also change the time of No.
and 4. No. % will also carry mail
1t is reported that the new card will
take effect next Monday.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

ia INC Alll Ause Uccn i..iu Ulr Oh
..ccOunI VI Lne WOfA being Nearly
completed.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

On account of increased business
on the road another machinast has
been added to the night force at the
rOundhOuse.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-11-17

Brakeman Carl LEM is at the
hospital suffering with a sprained
ankle caused by falling from a car
on the Kalispell transfer.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13
NO.

fegr. Cansnt Sd BHiulH aefasif-a
George Tsler a 20 IS Harrington.
defHulfrd TAYLOR pro ami - Walker
gerdiel rs jufs for plaluan 81.
Walton a Walton - I'LL ct ais. set
led for $1,000 and taxable costs in
favor Of plaintiffs. Nadeau Va Sta
pies. neither party. Perkins vs. Bile
then. non-suit. Heath = DirRo Mu-
tual Fire ms Co, verdict by jury for
plaintiff for sl3S454; Grant. Aplt.
from decree of county commission
ers, defaulted. Fowler Is. Footer. de-
iaulted, New England Fertilizer Co.
rs. Trafton, defaulted. Merrill vs.
Flagg. defaulted Spear VS. Jordan.
defaulted; Luce. ct ais VS. Hill de
fauted; Wilson vs. Allison, de-
fauted; TwadeIle rs. Miller. default
ed; Kennison rs. Higgins. defaulted;
Tuscan vs.. Lawrence. verdict by the
jury for the defendant
The December term was adjourned
sine die Thursday noon.
List of divorces decreed By De
cember term OF Supreme Judicial
court
Thomas Smith. Lib. IS. George I.
Smith, cruel and abusive treatment;
william A. Steward, Lib. vs. Beulah
NJ. Steward, cruel and abusive treat
ment; Alice NJ. Harris, Lib. VS.. John
Harris, cruel and abusive reatment;
Flora 3. Hewey, Lib. VS.. George H.
Hewey, gross and confirmed habits
Of intoxication; Musa d. Gee, Lib vs.
L. Harry Gee. cruel and abusive
treatment; Jennie A. Gilbert. Lib vs.
Benjamin Gilbert, gross and confirm
ed habits of intoxication and cruel
and abusive treatment; Clara Mar
quis, Lib. VS.. David Marquis, gross
and confirmed habits of intoxication
and cruel and abusive treatment; Ell
ia NJ. Witham, Lib. VS. Walter F.
Witham, adultery; Thomas B. Tague,
Lib. vs.. Lena B. Tague. utter deser-
ton; William II. Durrell, Lib vs.
Jennie L. Durrell cruel and abusive
treatment Katie NJ. Knox, Lib vs.
Joseph Knox, gross and confirmed
habits of intoxication. cruel and abu-
sive treatment, and extreme cruelty;
Augusta Elmira Thorpe, Lib Vs.
Mayhem Beckwith Thorpe, cruel and
abusive treatment; Dell B. Roach,
Lib VS.. Alice Roach, utter desertion,
Eli La Point, Lib. vs.. Mary " La
Point, adultery; Annie Tobin, Lib. vs..
James P. Tobin. gross and confirmed
habits of intoxication, cruel and abu-
siye treatment, and extreme cruelty;
Cora Elva Hilton, Lib. vs.. Howard
Berton Hilton, cruel and abusive
treatment, and extreme cruelty,
Claude B. Dyer, Lib. vs. Bessie A.
Dyer; Rosie NJ. Brisette, Lib. vs. Will
liam Brisette, non-support; Augustus
Holz, Lib. VS.. Adolphine L. Holz, utter
desertion; Maude A Evans Lib. vs.
William F. Evans, cruel and abusive
treatment Louis L. Jandro, Lib. Va.
Alma A Jandro, adultery; Azuba H.
Chamberlain, Lib. VS.. Otis E. Cham
berlain cruel and abusive treatment;
sylvia NJ. Fowler, Lib. vs. Herbert
Eugene Fowler, non-support; Arthur
H. Spaulding, Lib. VS.. Mabel NJ.
Spaulding, adultery; George o. Ken
ney, Lib. vs.. Winnie E. Kenney, cruel
and abusive treatment; Gideon Hard
ing, Lib VS.. Emma F. Harding, cruel
and abusive treatment.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13
TROLLEY LINE I D
ATHENS
Now Seems Practically
Assured
Athens Enthuses Over Bright Pros
poets.

A special meeting of the town OF
Athens was held Saturday to hear the
report of Engineer John Jones OF
Lewiston, relating to his survey for
the proposed electric road from Ath-
ems to Skowhegan. MIR. Jones report
ed that in all his years of experience
in surveying he had never mapped out
a road so promising as this; that he
had never seen a better location from
a standpoint of economical building
and operation. Nowhere on the pro-
posed route will the road encounter
a grade exceeding three per cent,
most remarkable and favorable con-
dition for state so hilly as Maine
Mr. Mullen of the Brighton Man
ufacturing Co. made a notable offer,
which cheered the committee and
further enthused the citizens of the
town. In promising the support OF
his company he stated that il would
take stock in the corporation formed
to build and operate the road. and
that it would erect new mills and
increase the volume of business so
that it could guarantee the shipment
of from six TO ten car loads per week,
though the output at present is but
two car loads. This offer is condi-
tional only upon the building of the
road
The committee that made the in
vestigation into the possibility and
advisability of building the road was
authorized to proceed further to make
plans for the actual capitalization and
Incorporation of a company TO begin
the construction. The committee will
send a man to Augusta next week to
arrange for incorporation and efforts
to procure capital, or Capitalists, as
one of the committee put il in con-
versation with representative of the
lndependent-Repo rter, Will begin at
once. The committee consists of j.
Z. Chapman. f. z. Collins, c. X. Div
er, Waldo Sanders, George Aver and
George c. Hight
The plans for the road as laid out
by Engineer Jones We're accepted by
the town. The route will be as fol-
lows Start at Athens and run direct
ly to Cass' Corner. thence in bee
line to East Madison, and from there
along the highway to a point near
the Rowell place. thence across
country TO the Mulunkaus road.
thence to North street, TO Water
street, to the Maine Central depot. At
the depot the tracks will be laid
close to the platform where teams
not wait for trains, and close to the
freight house.
The committee. which has worked
untiringly and acted with caution and
wisdom in every move, now says that
there is little doubt that the road will
be built this coming summer.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13
SHERIFF M0OERS
ARRESTED
Popular Officer Seized
and Searched
Came As q Great Surprise Tuesday
Morning.

Tuesday noon the whole force of
deputy sheriffs of Somerset county
in Office made their way to the home
of Sheriff John Mooers bearing with
them a warrant for his immediate ar
rest The public opinion has been
that Sheriff Mooers Is a most efficient
and thorough-going officer. that the
County of Somerset might we'll con-
graduate itself upon having such an
honest and popular sheriff, and in
deed these things are 80, and furnish
the very reasons for his arrest Tues
day.
The deputies seized the surprised
sheriff with more or less show of
authority and some necessary use Of
force, and searched his person for a
certain watch charm and chain. When
they found said charm and chain they
flung them into a far corner and re-
placed them with an elegant knight
Templars charm, studded with five
diamonds and more rubies, pendent
from beautiful gold chain. 1t is I'M
derstood that no formal charge was
finally made against the sheriff, and
that no further action will be taken
in the case. The fact is he seems to
have enjoyed the arrest procedure
immensely. and is Justly proud of the
chains put upon him.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13
CHIEF FORESTER P|MCHOT DISMISSED
FROM SERVICE FOR INSTRUMENTATION
President Taft Refuses To Overlook Direct
Violation OF Executive Orders.

afternoon sitting. II was at the end
of this special session that the Pres
ident made public the letter he wrote
to Mr.. Pinchot notifying him that
his usefulness as a public servant I'M
der the present administration was at
an end.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
Pinchot's immediate superior, 1t ap-
pears, was one OF the forester's chief
accusers He told President Taft
that he advised Mr.. Pinchot not to
send the letter to Senator Dolliver and
that Pinchot told him he had such a
letter In mind. and could induce Sen
ator Dolliver" to read it on the very
day that President Taft's special
message transmitting the Attorney
Generals exoneration of Secretary
Ballinger was to be presented to the
Senate.
1t was this account of Pinchot's ap-
parently calculated insubordination
which aroused the President to
keenest resentment.
Mr.. Taft in his letter accuses Pin
chot of having taken his stand against
Secretary Ballinger wholly upon the
without regard to the evidence on the
other side on file in the Interior
Department. The letter directing
Secretary Wilson to dismiss the for
ester forthwith was carefully framed
during the afternoon sitting of the
Cabinet and was revised several times
before finally being made public. 1t
is the Presidents own statement of
the case.
TAFT ARRAIGNS PINCHOT.
The White House,
Washington, Jan. T. 1910.
Sir:
1.-THE Secretary of Agriculture in
forms me that on the 28th of Decem-
Der your associate forester, Mr.. Price,
went to him and proposed to resign
on the ground that he had been en-
gagged with Mr.. Shaw, assistant law
officer, in insisting the publication in
various newspapers and magazines,
articles attacking the good name Of
Secretary Ballinger and charging the
Interior Department and Land Office
with corruption. The secretary there
upon wrote a note to you under date
of December 20 asking for your rec
ommendet ton in the premises. You
did not answer, but on January you
had q conversation with him in which
you said you wished to make state
ment which should be read in the
Senate at the same time that my mes
sage transmitting the record in the
CLAWS case reached there, and that
you thought you could induce Sena-
tor Dolliver to introduce the state
ment for you. The secretary advised
against such course; but asked you
for a recommendation as to accept
ing Prices resignation, in order that
he might bring the matter to me, to
whom, he told, you. it must ultimately
come, because | had considered the
CLAWS charges and had passed upon
them.
without further conference with
the secretary, and before making a
Continued on Page Nine.)
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13
CONCERNING MOVING
PICTURE SHOWS
An Entertainment Within the Reach
of the Poorest

Among the many things In the
twentieth century that would have
Weakened fear and wonder in our an
cestors, none would have amazed
them more, perhaps than the moving
picture show; but the chances are 1t
would have been to them only another
manifestation Of witchcraft.
To sit and see the world of things
and men unroll before you, after the
fashion of the shifting panorama of
our dreams, or the fitting OF our fan
cies AZ we hope or remember, is an
experience hard to analyze.
When the pictures show us the
various beauties of home or foreign
scenes-when in the same hour we
in the palace or the cot, history. or
the mountains. the changing moods
and mysteries of the ocean-the traf-
flc of foreign cities, the waving of
palm trees, the drifting iceberg, life
In the palace or the cot, history of
the passing moment. then truly 1t
seems that time and distance are an
nulled and we have come into pos
session of the powers of the fourth
dimension dreamed of by philoso-
piers.
But along with the charm of this
wonderful pleasure goes its disillu-
sion. II all the beauty Of earth, II
all the masterpieces of story may
be ours,-for ten cents,-we DO not
always get the best. Men have said
of the theatre what we can say of
the picture show. 1t might be one of
the greatest forces for good the world
has ever known.
The educational value of this pan
oramic view of the world could be
readily estimated by each and all IL
only the thought of entertainment did
not eclipse the educational idea. or II
the entertainment we're always of the
highest kind. II the appeal to the
sensibilitieg was always made the
appeal to the nobler emotions in the
shifting scenes of story-land no one
would hesitate or question.
And as 1t IL, the moving picture
show at It's best, today has much to
recommend 1t, before higher priced
amusements that are too often un-
questioned. At its best. l say-unroli-
ing no reel that has not been CEN
spred BY reputable critics, giving us
much trash. perhaps, but always
clean trash, and fun that II not al
nays very refined, yet stops short of
coarse yulgarity, showing along with
- poorer pictures some that charm
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13

Clifford Pinchot. chief forester and
intimate friend of Theodore Roose-
welt, was dismissed from the service
of the Unitedf States Friday night.
January Z, by President Taft for in
subordination. Associate Forester
Overton w. Price, and assistant law
officer Alexander c. Shaw, Pinchot's
immediate assistants in the forestry
bureau, followed him out of the SER
vice of the government.
Thoroughly indignant over the ac-
ton of Mr.. Pinchot in inducing Sena-
tor Dolliver of Iowa, to read a let
ter from him in the Senate President
Taft would listen to no advice
that the forester's violation of exc
cutive orders be overlooked pending
the inquiry soon to be undertaken by
Congress. He declared the dignity OF
the office he was chosen by the people
to fill was being attacked and he
would be unfaithful to his trust IL he
submitted longer.
Mr.. Taft realizes fully what the dis
m;ssal of Forester Pinchot means In
a political way. He had been con-
WINGED for sometime that the So
called insurgents" and other critics
of his administration enlisted the
services of Mr.. Pinchot and practi-
cally were defying him to relieve Pin
chot of his office.
The latters letter, few here doubt,
was written with the direct purpose
of putting 1t squarely up to the
President"
The President tried to avoid the
threatened war as long as he could
but declared finally that patience had
ceased to be a virtue. He picked up
the gauge of battle thrown down by
Mr.. Pinchot by the hand Of Senator
Dolliver In the Senate, and with the
administration supporters, Is ready
for the fray, which is certain to en-
sue.
SITUATION MOST TENSE FOR
YEARS.
Political observers In Washin gton
declare that the situation created by
these developments Is the most tense
of many years. What the outcome will
be no one is willing to prophesy.
In the House of Representatives
Friday Speaker Cannon lost his first
fight with the insurgents" Combin-
ing with the Democrats, they forced
the adoption of an amendment to the
Ballinger-Pfnchot inquiry resolution
taking from the Speaker the power to
appoint the House members of the
joint special committee of investiga-
ton. The margin of victory was a
narrow one of three votes, but the
insurgents" and Democrats were
jubilant. The dismissal of Pinchot
has lent fuel to the flames of their
celebration and they are venturing all
manner of predictions as to what is to
happen in the future.
The Cabinet was in special session
during practically the entire after
noon, after the regular session of the
morning. Secretary Bellinger, cog
infant of the action that was about to
be taken, remained away from the
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13
MORE THAN A BILLION.
Largest Financial Transaction In
Worlds History nj Washington.

Washington. Jan. s.--What Is said
to be the largest financial transac-
ton I'm the worlds history occurred
here today. II consisted In the giving
OF receipt for 81 ,260, l34.946S2 90 by
Lee McClung. the treasurer OF the
United States to Charles H. Treat.
who retired from that Office October
81. and is an acknowledgment for
the money and securities In the office
as of November /. The practice is a
customary one with the change of
treasurers.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13

DR.. Daniels-Horse Oolic-Cure--
cures or money back--at any dealers;
insure your horse against Collie. 1y9
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13

The directors of the Canadian For
estry association of which Sir Will
frid Laurier is the president, have
invited Roy L. Marston to give an ad-
dress at the annual convention of the
Association to be held at Fredericton,
N. b., on February 8.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13

and inform the mind-such picture
show is a step toward what the
public might have If 1t chose to de-
mand 1.-THE ideal entertainment
within the reach of the poorest.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-13

A woman is very intelligent to
know that beauty will do for her
more than intelligence.
A mother even thinks the baby has
the stomach ache in much more in
teresting way than other children.
A danger a man runs in life is how
he can ask a girl what sermon was
preached in her church, and she will
ter him he proposed to her,-Now
York Press.
Generally when man is having a
good time 1t Is at doing omething he
can't afford.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-30

Bachelors hdqrs., rms $50 up. Bergez
& Frank. 421 Bush. Bath. steam heat
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-30
ADVICE OF PASTOR
PREVENTS LOTTERY
Automobile VIII Not Be Dis.
posed of by Rattle at the
Oakland KirmeSS

OAKLAND. Jan. 29.-The voice of
the Rev. Charles R. Brown. pastor of
the First Congregational church of
Oakland, has saved the kirmess from
whatever complications, moral or legal,
would have followed lottery The
executive committee of the charity fete
intended to hold a rattle of $3.50 Mo
line automobile runabout, but the
clergyman held an advisory session
with the committee and now there is
another plan on to swell the benefit
fund.
At 10 cents a vote the spectators at
the kirmess dance may ballot for the
most populars set of dances at the COM
ing affair.
Mrs. Mark L. Requa of the committee
announced this evening that the auto
mobile lottery was not to be, held.
Mr. Brown did advise US not TO hold
the rattle" said Mrs. Requa, and take
il for granted that he based his rea-
sons upon moral grounds. At any rate
cided TO submit the question to my hus-
band and my attorney. The decision
was reached that it might be viola
tion of the law, a law which is more
or less winked at, but nevertheless it is
the law. Upon that showing I de-
cided that I wanted nothing done which
might cause any reflection, unfavor-
able criticism or comment to be cast
upon the kirmess, Of which 1 am the
head"
Rev. DR.. Brown was not inclined to
discuss the question. He said it was
entirely in the hands of the committee.