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The Tupelo journal., 1910-05-13
WILL NAME COL. GORDON.
Gov. Noel Says He Will Not BE Bound
by the Primary.

wv sNVSs O0yo ~ WIZ S
BY the Primary.
Gov. Noel Saturday issued the first
authorized detailed statement Of his
position on the primary proposition
controversy. Speaking of the matter,
he said:
Il never heard of the proposition for
a fall primary until after it had been
submitted by Senator Percy and
brought before the legislature by reso-
luton. From the outset, though, / was
not consulted about the matter by any
one, | never failed to express my oppo-
sition, regarding it as both inexpedi-
ent and illegal. Under express consti-
~tutional sanction and direction the pri-
mary election law takes from candi-
dates and political parties the right
and power to make nominations other;
wise than at the time and by the meth
DDS it prescribes. absolutely annulling,
by express provision, nomination and
election of nominees made otherwise
than as therein provided; and depriv-
ing political parties, thus offending,
from recognition is such, in the APP
pointment of the county or precinct
election officers. Section 1922 Of the
code. This law, until repealed in the
regular way, can neither be ignored or
modified by agreements of candidates,
or resolutions by legislators or execu-
tive committees. AS the chief execu-
tive of the state, l am exercising my
right and duty in calling for the OBJ
~servance, in letter and in spirit of this,
as of every other law, and declining
to be bound by what | may regard
as an illegal proceeding. If a vacancy,
from any cause, occurs before the
meeting of the next legislature in the
~tnree-year senatorial terms for which
Senator Percy was elected, regardless
OF any irregular primary election,
shall appoint Col. James Gordon or
some other worthy and capable Con-
federate veteran"
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
TO BE
QUARANTINED

For the purpose of getting the
matter in tangible form so that it
may be acted upon oficially,a COM
mittee from the commissioners of
the counties in session in annual
convention is engaged in drafting a
resolution and recommendations
which will cause a strict quarantine
to be enforced against smallpox and
other contagious diseases. The ap-
pointment of the committee came
as a result of prolonged discussion
Of the advisability of boards of COM
missioners enforcing quarantine.
Some of the officials were dis
posed to think the matter should
be left entirely to the state board of
health, as it is believed little credit
will 60 to the commissioners in
event their recommendations are
carried out and prove beneficial,
while to the contrary in the case
there is dissatisfaction to the public
then they will be severely censured.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
HAS ACCEPTED Posi-.
TION AT HILLYARD

A. P. Sheridan, who bas been
employed at the roundhouse for the
past few years as machinist, has
accepted a similar position with the
Great Northern at the Hillyard
shops.
Mr.. Sheridan's aged father, who
lives in Bellingham, Wash, has
been in very poor health of late, SO
he is taking him to Spokane in
hopes that the change of climate
and altitude will be better suited to
him. 1t is for this reason that Mr..
Sheridan is leaving here and it is to
be regretted that he should leave
at this time, as he was just getting
the band nicely organized again,
and now with his going away they
will be without a leader, and it is
likely that the organization will not
be able to make much headway for
while on this account.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
BOYS WANTED

"One thousand boys wanted to
grow corn in Montana for the James
]. Hill prize" is the caption of an
article sent out by Fred S. Cooley,
superintendent of the farmers. In
stitute at Bozeman.
Mr.. Hill has offered prize
amounting to one thousand dollars
to be divided among the successful
competitors. Corn can be success
fully grown in Montana and the
boys will show you." With fifty
boys planting corn in each county,
there will be something doing next
fall, and the state fair will look like
a corn show. In 1911 Montana
farmers will be planting Che seed
our boys have produced. What
interests the boys, interests all the
people of Montana.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
UP
VIOLATORS

Game Warden w. R. Ralston
was in town last Thursday to look
into alleged cases of deer killing out
of season.
He rounded up several settlers at
the head of the lake, whom it was
reported have been paying no at
tention to the game laws whatever,
and have been slaughtering deer at
their pleasure out of season as we'll
as in it.
He was not able to secure evi-
dence enough to bring any charge
against them, but he gave them
fair warning that their actions will
be watched in the future and if they
are caught violating the law in the
least, they will be punished to it's
fullest extent.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
HANDS BURNED
WITH GASOLINE

Mrs. E. J. Cavanaugh had very
narrow escape from being seriously
burned Monday afternoon. She
was out on her back porch cleaning
a collar with gasoline, when from
no other apparent cause than fric-
tion, the gasoline ignited on the
collar and set fire to the pan of
gasoline also. Her hands and arms
were badly burned, but with great
presence Of mind she went into the
house and secured a quilt with
which she smothered the flames
and put out the fire in the pan of
gasoline, which threatened to set
fire to the house. After all was
over she called her daughter Flor
ence, from the store to her assist
ance. The burns are painful but
will not be serious. DIR. Houston
was called to attend her.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
PRUNE SELLERS HAVE
FAREWELL DINNER

All the ''Prune Sellers of the
city of Whitefish were invited to the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Robin
son, where they partook of sump-
tuous dinner at three O'Clock Sun
day afternoon, which was a farewell
to Percy Robinson, one of their num-
Der. who has departed for his broad
acres of homestead land in the do
minions of King Edward. After
spending an enjoyable afternoon
they took their leave, declaring that
they had been delightfully."- enter
tanned, and wished Percy success in
his new venture, but not to forget
the stars and stripes.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
DENNIS KELLEY
TO GREAT FALLS

Dennis Kelley, the we'll known
violinist, who has been employed as
clerk with the Star Clothing and
Shoe Co. since last spring, has re-
signed his situation there and has
gone back railroading again. He
has accepted a position as cashier
for the Great Northern Express Co. j,
at Great Falls, and left for there
last Thursday night.
Mr.. Kelley has been a resident of
Whitefish for number of years,
and on account Of being an expert
musician he was always in demand
and greatly sought after when ever
there was any music to be furnished
for an entertainment or a dance.
In fact he was the best violinist in
the valley, and could make his in.
strument fairly talk.
He was very popular with every
one and he has host of friends
here who regret very much to hear
of his departure, and will wish him
well in his new location, but some
of them don't give him very Ions
to stay away. They feel sure thai
he will have longing for dear ole
Whitefish which he can not resist
and be back again before many
moons.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

It has been strenuous week on
this division of the Great Northern,
especially for the officials, who
have put in the hardest week they
have had for many a day, fighting
the elements.
The warm weather and rains in
this section have been the cause of
many serious snow slides in the
mountains at several places along
the line, which did great deal of
damage to property and demoral-
lied the traffic over the entire sys-
tenn.
Saturday morning at 7:30, a big
slide came down at Highgate, 800
feet long and Is feet deep, which
buried four men, employees of Grant
Smith and Co.. the Great Northern
contractors, who are doing the
double tracking over the summit Of
the mountains. Shortly after this
others occurred at Paola and Sky
land, but they were small and the
rotary plows soon cleared them out.
On account of the men Icing buried
at the Highgate slide, the rotary
could not be put into it on the start
for fear of cutting up the men who
were entombed therein, so it had
to be shoveled out by hand which
was slow and tedious work and de-
layed all trains for over II hours.
Two Of the men dug out were
dead and the other two slightly in
jured as follows: Henry Strong,
Finlander, age 20, dug out about
500 a. M, slightly injured; Jacob
Sorel, Finlander, age 38, dug out
at 2:15 p. M. practically uniniured
except from cold; Oscar Peterson,
Finlander, age 3S, dug out 2:3O p.
m. and Adam Asu age 26, both
dead, caused by suffocation. The
dead were taken charge of by Cor
oner Waggener and the injured
were taken care of at the contract
er's hospital at Fielding.
Jacob Sorel, the man who re-
ceived no injuries was working in a
cut in the bank, and when he saw
the slide coming down on him he
ran into the cut where he was
working and was in this way pro-
tected from injury. He had his
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
THE LADIES ARE
GOOD BOWLERS

Ladies day at the bowling alleys
is becoming quite popular with
number of the women who are TAX
ing great deal of interest in this
healthy and invigorating sport.
Last Friday about Is of them
turned out and they report having
had dandy good time. They
have become very enthusiastic over
the game and some of them are
already talking of organizing
club, so as to have match games.
This will no doubt come after they
have had little more practice.
There are some excellent bowlers
among them and several very good
scores were made for the first time,
which will no dobt grow larger as
they get more practice.
Tomorrow it is expected that
VIClC Will UC SICSLCcI IluIIlOCF OuU
to compete for the prizes which Mr..
Willoughby is offering to those max
ing the best scores. Every Friday
afternoon is ladies' day and Mr..
Willoughby will do everything he
can to make it pleasant for them.
The alleys are cleaned up on this
day purposely for them, and they
can 60 there and enjoy a pleasant
afternoons sport without the least
fear of being offended in any way,
because no one will be admitted
who can not be a gentleman. The
ladies rule supreme on this day and
all men must take back seat.
The following are some of the
good scores that were made last
Friday: Mrs. Delaney 1O2 and
"a, Mrs. Ramay S6, Mrs. Peterson
SO and Mrs. DeRemer 76.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
TO INSTALL
A MOTOR

Geo. K. Midzutani, the propri-
etor of the Whitefish Steam Laun-
dry, to make everything up-to-date,
has ordered ten horse power
electric motor to run the machinery
in his laundry, instead of the steam
engine that he figured on in the
first place. The machinery has
been in transit for month now,
and is expected here any day. His
foreman arrived from Seattle last
week and is making all the perliIn-
mary arrangements to have it rush.
ed to completion as soon as the
machinery arrives.
When this laundry gets in run
ming order it will be the finest and
best equipped in the valley, as all
the latest and up-to-date machinery
will be installed and all the modern
appliances will be used, so that
nothing but the best of work will be
turned out.
In making his plans Mr.. Mid
zutani has figured on the increase
of business which the growth of the
city will bring, and will be amply
equipped to take care Of all future
needs for some time to come. He
is also making reduction in the
price of the work, being able to do
this on account of the facilities
that he has, and the capacity of his
new machinery to turn out the
work cheaper than the other laun-
dries and will give the people OF
Whitefish the benefit of this, which
will no doubt be appreciated.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
DESTRUCTIVE LAND
AND SNOW SLIDES

shovel with him and when found
he had started digging his own way
out.
This slide had hardly been clean
ed up when one came down near
Swinton, on the Fernie branch,
about 300 feet long and IS feet
deep, SO all the available men and
snow fighting apparatus was rushed
over there, because tie up on the
Fernie branch would mean coal
famine, as all the coal used in this
section comes from the mines at
Fernie. The slide was not hard to
manage as the rotary plows could
work in it to good advantage, so it
was not long before it was cleaned
Eup.
But the troubles did not end
here, the worst was yet to come.
Sunday afternoon about one 'clock,
the worst slide that has ever hap
pened on this division came down
at Highgate again and another man
was buried beneath it and was killed
He was found the next day with his
face all crushed and his body badly
bruised. His name is Peter Hen
derson, Swede, age AZ. Coroner
Waggener took charge of his re-
mains also.
This slide was about 45O feet long
and 80 feet deep in some places,
and was composed of as much rock
and timber as there was snow, so it
made it the most difficult problem
to dig out. In some places. when
nothing else would avail, blasting
had to be resorted to.
On account of this slide the train
service was completely put out o1
business until yesterday morning
when passage was cut thru. AL
passenger trains both ways had t.
run over the Northern Pacific from
Helena to Spokane, and this section
of the country was practically
isolated from the rest of the world
Tuesday No. Al came in from the
west and was turned around here
and went back as No. 3. The
dinky came up from Kalispell tt
make connections with it, which
gave them the first outlet they hao
had for over "a hours.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Proudman, Of Ever
EFT, WASH, who has been visit
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders for
the past week returned yesterday.
Mr.. Proudman is the roundhouse
foreman at Everett and is badly
effected with asthma, so came over
here for a short ime in hopes that
the change of altitude would benefit
him, but he did not receive the re-
lief he expected.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
DIVISION
RIGHTS ONLY

On the first of April change
will take place all over the Great
Northern system, whereby the en-
ginemen will all be assigned to
certain divisions and will not hold
seniority rights outside of that one
division.
Heretofore they have been hold
ing rights over several divisions,
especially around in Minnesota
where men held rights over hun
dreds of miles of track that they
had never been over. This has
been the cause of a great deal of
confusion in keeping the men prop
erly placed on the seniority list, and
it kept all the men in that particu-
lar district in suspense, because he
could really never tell when an old
er man from another division would
take notion he wanted certain
run, and come over and bump him,
putting him out of a job and prob
ably causing him to move to some
other place.
The seniority rights of the men
on this section of the Great North
ern extends from Cut Bank to Spo-
kane, over two divisions, the Kalis-
pell and Spokane.
Circulars have been issued to the
men during the past week about the
proposed change, stating that on
April /, all runs will be declared
vacant, and each man is now re-
quested to sign up for the division
he desires to work on and put in a
bid for the run he wants. He will
then have thirty days to take the
run he bid for, and must be settled
by the first of June. After
that date no one will hold rights
over more than one. division. That
will mean that the men who sign
up for the Kalispell division will
have to remain here permanently
and cannot be hopping back and
forth between here and Spokane as
they have been doing in the past.
1t has put a number of the en-
inemen on the fence, as they do
not know which division they want
to take. Some Of the younger men
are signing up for the Spokane di-
vision because they can then work
out of large city, but it is liable
to put them quite ways down the
list, when they can hold good rights
here, which is another matter which
they will consider seriously.
In fact this seems to be the pref.
erable division from a working
stand point, as it is claimed the
runs are more desirable, the work
ing conditions are better and the
engines are in better shape, so there
will no doubt be many of the old
men who can hold good rights on
the Spokane division, who will stay
here on this account, in preference
to moving to Spokane just for the
sake of being in larger town.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT

When the First National Bank
gets into its new quarters they will
add savings department to their
banking system, which will no doubt
be appreciated by the wage earners
of Whitefsh, as it will enable them
to make safe disposition of their
savings, so that they can have some
thing laid up for a rainy day.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
PLANS
ACCEPTED

DR.. H. E. Houston returned
from Spokane last Thursday after
noon where he had been in con-
ference with, and submitted the
plans of the new bank building, to
the parties there, the Union Securi-
ties Co. land the Whitefsh Townsite
Co, who are to finance this under
taking, along with the First Nation
al Bank of White6sh and several
local people.
He laid the plans personally be-
fore D. w. Twohy, president and
F. D. Basset, vice President of the
Union Securities Co., and F. B.
Grinnel, president of the Whitefish
Townsite Co. and the First National
Bank of Whitefish, and they all
feel very highly elated over every
thing that has been done and rec
commend that the work be started
as soon as possible, and stated that
the finances will be forthcoming as
soon as they are needed.
These men, who are the large
financiers of Spokane. are not TAX
ing any chances by investing their
money here and then have the d.
vision point move away. They
have looked into this matter
thoroughly and have taken it up
carefully with President l.. w. Hill
and General Manager Greuber of
the Great Northern, whom they
have kept informed of what they
propose to do here. The matter
has also been laid before E. l..
Brown, general superintendent of
the western district at Spokane and
and Division Superintendent w.
r. Smith of this place, who all
heartily approve of the action that
has been taken, which will restore
confidence in the town and drive
away for all time to come, the scare
that the division point will be taken
away.
There were few minor changes
made in the plans, so as to make
four store rooms on the first floor
instead of three, and on the second
floor a few changes were made in
regards to the rooms, but otherwise
the general structure will remain
the same.
Architect Marion B. Riffo is now
engaged in making the permanent
plans and specifications, and as
soon as they are finished the con-
tracts will be let and the work start
ed as soon as it can be gotten under
way. It is desired to have the ex-
cavating done for the basement be-
fore the spring sets in, which will
make it more difficult then, so that
the prospects are that the work will
be started in the very near future
1t is the intentions of the direct
ors to use home products and en-
ploy home labor in this building as
far as possible.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

a. Mrs. P. l.. Forcum very pleas
antly entertained the 800" Club
Tuesday afternoon at her home at
Lakeside. At 5 O'Clock delicious
refreshments were served, after
which the ladies enjoyed social
chat. Beside the club members
the invited guests We're: Mesdames
Robinson, Geddes, McFarlane, the
Misses Mahan, Edith and Margaret
Roe buck.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

I. B. Willoughby is giving away
to the man who makes the highest
score on his bowling alleys during
the month of February, fine meer-
schaum pipe.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27
YOU CAN GET YOUR
FISHING LICENSE NOW

Judge Carr received supply of
fishing and hunting licenses from
the state game warden last week, so
all those who are going plunking
this winter had better secure IL
censes at once. The licenses are
here now and no one will be ex-
cused for not having one. The
minimum fine is $25 for the first
offense and the license only costs
onl dollar, 80 it will be a pretty
good investment te secure one be-
fore the game warden happens
around this way.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

The Hutchinson Lumber Com
pany has crew of 20 men engaged
in taking out cedar poles. Their
saw and planning mill is shut down
for the present.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

Bert Goodhue was passenger to
Kalispell yesterday, going down on
a short visit with his sister.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

E. L. Geddes has his new real
estate Office about completed, which
puts up a very neat appearance
since he has had the new front put
on.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

It's funny how queer and uncom-
municative man will be just short
ly before he is to get married.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

Levi Martin. a rancher from over
in the Saltwater country was in the
city yesterday transacting business.
The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-01-27

Sydney Lvle, the piano tuner
came over from Kalispell yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-19
MYSTERY TN MANS DEATH
Wealthy Woman, Who Called 1t
Suicide, Placed in Custody.

I.unenhurE. Vt. Sept. 1s-An autopsy
having disclosed tnat William Heath.
painter. who Was supposed TO have COM
mitted suicide yesterday. was shot
through the back. the authorities to-day
placed Mrs. J. NJ Dodge. a prominent
resident Of this town, in custody IN her
oVn home.
Heath who was forty years old. mar
ried. and lived in Dalton. y. H, had
been employed for several days paint
ing al the Dodge house. Yesterday noon
Mrs. Dodge ran out of the house, ex-
claiming that Heath had committed sui
eide by shooting himself while at work
IN her bedroom
To-day. after the examining physician
had reported that Heath had been shot
in the back. the authorities began an in
vestiga ton and found two bullets i'm
bedded in the walls Of the bedroom. The
revolver with which the shooting was
cone was owned by Mrs. Dodge. accord
ing 10 the police.
Mrs. Dodge is about forty-eight years
old. q widow. and the pOssessor of con-
siderable means. She has nothing to say
about the affair other than that she
heard the shots and believed Heath had
shot himself Heath was forty years
old and leaves a family.