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Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-13
Land DEALS Creates
MUCH SPECULATION
OPTIONS TAKEN ON LARGE
TRACTS IN THE SMITH
RIVER VALLEY.

Great Falls Leader: Options on g.
600 acres Of valuable agricultural and
coal lands extending for distance
Of about seven and half miles along
the Smith river canyon in southern
Cascade county, 80 miles south Of
Great Falls, have been secured within
the past few weeks by men represent
ing big interests. These options have
been taken on lands through which
the Smith river survey Of the Mil
waukee railroad runs, and this fact
has given rise to the belief that the
parties who negotiated the deals rep
resent the Milwaukee railroad. Ii
this be true, it may be taken as all
indication that the Milwaukee has
definitely decided to build to Great
Falls down the Smith river valley.
The largest tract on which an option
has been secured is the ranch of G.
E. Colby, the area of which is 7,O0(
acres. 1t Is understood that the op-
ton calls for the payment Of $4,000
for the tract Another option has
OCCt ldhCli Oll lAS AdhAH Vi ~ -
,Hoag, a tract of 1900 acres, and $50
600 is the price named, it is said. L
is also stated that Mr.. Hoag has al.
ready closed the deal for his ranch
under the option and that he has re.
ceived payment for the property
Neg gotiations have also been carried
on for the purchase of ranch and {
power site, but this deal has not beer
closed
The figures named for the areas in
volved indicate that the lands are no
being taken for agricultural purposes
1t is known that under the Hoag ant
Colby ranches are immense coal beds
which are portions of the same strata
as those on which the Hound creel
| mines are located. The country ha:
been widely prospected by the Grea
| Northern railroad in the past and tht
exact limitations Of the coal area have
been established The parties. who
took the options on these ranches re
fused to state for whom they were
acting, but acknowledged that the,
| were acting for eastern interests.
The land men Of that region are posi-
| tive that the buyers represent the Mil
waukee railroad.
| It is limited that the seven miles Q
continuous country now PRACTICAL.
controlled by one corporation, what
ever it may be, is intended to be use'
as townsite as we'll as a coal min
ing proposition. The land IS ex
cellently located for townsite, an
it is possible that the Milwaukee rail
road, if it is this concern that i
making the deal, has the establish
ment of townsite at that point i
mind At any rate, the options hav
been placed and considerable specula
ton as to the designs OF the pur
chasers has been INDUCED in.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-13
Safe and Sane" Celebration With
Numerous Highly Entertaining
Features Will Be Given.
FIREWORKS ORDERED
Magnificent Display Will Be Set OFF
In the Evening-Moore Base
Ball Team Is Coming.

The members OF the grand Fourth
OF July celebration committee are all
enthusiastic over the prospects for
one big time in Lewistown on the
nations birthday anniversary. The
program IS about completed and it
requires no stretch Of the imagination
to realize that the thousands who
shall throng our prettily decorated
streets on that festive day will be
given the opportunity Of their lives
for lot Of fun.
Fireworks Are Ordered.
The fireworks are ordered. There
will be 81 numbers, including many
features never before seen in this Sec
ton Of the state. The fireworks
alone will be worth coming many
miles to see They will be set of
from Stafford's addition, just above
the city, permit having already been
secured by the city. Secretary George
Mathews, Of the Commercial club
who knows all about the game, will
attend to the setting off part A com
plete program Of this feature will be
given in future issue.
Decorate for Prizes.
The liberal prizes Offered will be
an incentive to the various business
houses to decorate their places ol
business in the finest possible man
ner. Already local artists are figuring
out plans Of decoration and there will
be some marvelously beautiful effects
The parade will easily eclipse any
thing of the sort ever witnessed il
Lewistown and this is saying much
in view of past successes in that re
lspect.. The various business houses
I frate ..a.I organizations and manufac
turing industries are going afte
those prizes, not so much for TIL.
money that there is, as for matte,
OF local pride.
Fine Orator Coming.
Some noted orator of the state will
deliver the oration OF the day. Th,
committee is now in correspondent,
with the man whom they expect t.
LAND, and if they are successful, th
crowd will have the opportunity 0
hearing an orator second to none II
| the Northwest
Base Ball Game With Moore.
The chief feature OF the Afternoon
will be the base ball game betweer
LeWistown and Moore. Both team
will be strengthened for that gam
and the thousands OF fans who liv
in this section of the state will see al
exhibition worth many times tn
price.
Money Comes Easily.
| It takes a lot of money to put IL
the sort of celebration that is bein
planned. but the soliciting committee
comprising John B. Rauch and Bill
| Wheeler, are attending to that par
Of the program. They have alread
secured pledges Of tie larger porto
OF the sym required and expect to ex
perience no difficulty in raising tn
necessary coin before the end OF tn
present week
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-13
county as candidate for the legisla-

county as candidate for the legisla-
ture
The vote he received attested to his
popularity and the esteem i'll which he
was held in the community, he lead
ing the legislative ticket. He was
chairman OF the Judiciary committee
OF the house OF the Eighth assembly
and served during that session with
distinction and ability.
Mr.. Word was held in high esteem
by the members Of the Montana bar
He was an officer OF the Montana Bar
association and was always Jealous to
uphold the ideals OF his profession.
For years he was a member Of the
board OF governors Of the Montana
club, and last January he was elected
to the presidency OF that institution
Mr.. Word is survived by his mother
Mrs. Samuel Word: sister, Miss
May Word, both OF whom are II
Southern California, and two brothers
r. Lee Word and William F. Word
both Of this city.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-13
Water WORKS BIDS
Opened BY COUNCIL
COST OF INSTALLATION WILL
BE AROUND FIFTEEN
THOUSAND.

At meeting of the city council
held last evening, and at which the
mayor and all members Of the alder
manic board were present, bids for
the installation of the new water sys-
tenn were opened and were found to
be as fellows:
N. J. Littlejohn. $22,A285.
R. NJ. Barsden & Co.. $l7 ,28o. 40.
Lindstrom & Oren. $l5.7O3.5O.
w. w. Cook & Sons. $l7.9o7.
Upon motion of Martin final action
was deferred until the next meeting
of the council to be held Monday
evening.
The claim of Mrs. Hawkeswortl1
for 5000 damages. alleged to have
been sustained by falling over de
fective walk. was disallowed. The
matter of the Abel sewer was laid
over until the next meeting, pending
some further correspondence with
Frank Degner. one of the property
owners effected
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-13
Wool Bill May Pass Senate.

Chicago, June 8.-A special from
Washington to the Chicago Tribune
says
"The surprising fact has developed
that the democratic wool bill may be
passed by the senate, following SINH
lar cation by the house, and presented
to President Taft for approval.
"If this action be taken, it will be
the result in the senate of combina-
ton OF all the democratic senators
and five progressive republicans.
1T is asserted that the necessary
number OF progressivcs are regarding
the democratic proposition favorabiy
and il their study OF its provisions be
satisfactory. its adoption is assured
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-13
MOSNEY UNDER ARREST
IN San DIEGO, CAL,
MAN THOUGHT TO BE MON
TANA OUTLAW IN CALL
FORNIA HOSPITAL.

Great Falls Tribune: A letter was
received yesterday by the Great Falls
police which may clear up the mys-
terry which for over three years has
shrouded the murder Of Robert
Holmes, a negro prospector, whose
body was found in the Bear Tooth
mountains south Of Helena. The let
ter was from the police department
OF San Diego, Cal, and stated that
a George Mosby Or Mosboy is now
being held in the United States hos
pital at San Diego, after having been
wounded in battle in Lower Cali
fornia. At the time the murder oc-
Cured, suspicion attached to a
| Robert Mosney, half breed des-
perado and former convict.
Word was Immediately sent to San
Diego that William Mosney was
| wanted in Montana for murder and
that rewards aggregating $1,000 were
offered for his capture. The descrip-
ton of the desperate who for weeks
i WI ollZNa lHC @ouAbly pCAWANli AANl-
ena and Great Falls was sent to the
California officials. The man held in
California goes by the name of Mos
by, but Mosney also used that name,
and it is possible that the man held
is the man wanted here.
Mosney was accused Of shooting
and killing Robert Holmes, a negro
prospector, in the Bear Tooth noun
tains in the fall OF 1907, robbery being
the motive for the crime. Holmes
was found in his cabin with bullet
in his back-he had been shot in cold
blood from behind. An investigation
fixed suspicion upon Mosney, half
breed and former convict, who had
served four years in the penitentiary
at Deer Lodge for horse stealing. Il
was learned that a man answering
Mosney's description had been seer
in the neighborhood.
Three weeks after the shooting
Jas. A. Shoemaker, then sheriff Of
Lewis and Clark county, located Mos,
ney with Holmes horse in the vicinity
Of Cascade. Sheriff Shoemaker had
a posse Of over half a dozen mer
with him. They found the half-breet
at ranch near Cascade, but the willy
Indian slipped right through th'
fingers Of the officers after they hat
emptied their guns all around him
Mosney rode away and for severa
weeks camped out on the prairie
robbing prospector's cabins and hold
ing people up for what he wanted
Sheriff Hogan, then sheriff OF Cas-
cade county, had posse out afte
the desperate, but failed to get him
/ About a year and half later
Sheriff Martin, Of Fergus county. 10
Gated Mosney in the Sixteen Mil
country and with posse surrounde..
the half-breed 1t was believed al
over Montana that at last the suspect
ed murderer OF Robert Holmes woul'
be brought to justice, but when Sherii
Martin drew his Gordon of outpost
around the place where Mosney wa
supposed to be, the half-breed wa
not there. He had escaped, no on
! knows how That was the last hear
/ of Mosney until the letter received b
Chief of Police Pontet today
Mosney was about % years ole
about FIVE feet seven inches tall, ha
black coarse hair, good teeth, darl
: gray eyes. and coarse features. n
! uses tobacco and can read and write
4 Word is expected within day o
two from San Diego as to whethe
. Mosby is the half-breed Mosney o
!. not.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-13
half MILLION POUNDS
OF WOOL SOLD HERE
BOSTON FIRM RAPIDLY PICK
ING UP FERGUS COUNTY
WOOL CLIP.

Dick Patterson, buyer for Hecht,
Lehman & company, has been doing
rushing business with woolgrowers
III this section Of the state during the
last week or ten days and has pretty
we'll cleaned up. There is estimated
to be about 100000 pounds yet un-
sold, the greater portion Of it i'll COM
paratively small clips. All told, Dick
has purchased about one million
pounds OF Fergus county wool for
his firm
Stressenger Here.
Jack Strcsscnger, another we'll
known and popular buyer, arrived in
the city this week and is interview
ing such owners as have not already
contracted. He expects to do some
business before leaving. For the
wool sold recently, about l8 cents has
been paid, some clips going for less
than that sum- In view OF the pesst-
mistic tone OF the market two months
ago, this is considered a good price
Following are the sales made here re-
Gently:
John NJ. Johnson. 10000 pounds;
Charles V. Peck, 10000 pounds;
Frank Degner, $4,000 pounds; J. p.
McQuaid & Son, 1900 pounds;
Arthur Noel, 1900 pounds; Shell &
Erickson. 10000 pounds; David For
man, 1900 .pounds; Halbert Bros,
28OOO pounds; F. R. Warren, 10000
pounds; Tai Reed, 10000 pounds;
William Jackson. $1,000 pounds; !;
George Lamb, $1,000 pounds; VIII
liam B. She'll, 1900 pounds; George
Pirrie, ll2.OOO pounds: D. L. Orig,
10000 pounds; Nicholus Burns. O.-
600 pounds; Clingan & Hamilton, 25,-
600 pounds. Total, 10000 pounds.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-13
Files Suit.

Thomas Heldahl and Others have
filed suit against T. H. Mackey, for
damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned through a breach OF contract.
Heldahl had the contract. so it is al
legged, to construct the Mackey build
ing on Main street and Second avenue
but the defendant entered into an
other contract. thus disregarding the
agreement with the plaintiff. Five
thousand dollars is the amount OF
damages asked in the complaint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20
Seeming Discrimination.

1.-The peculiar arrangement of items on
the list furnished by the board Of educa
ton has led some to suppose that the
Commissioners in their estimates discrim-
mated against the colored race.
I'm the opinion Of the Commissioners,
next to dishonesty, discrimination is the
greatest evil that can creep into munich
pal administration.
The Commissioners have now to re-
quest that in the preparation Of your esti-
mates for the fiscal year 1913 care be
taken in the arrangement of items for
new buildings and grounds, so that the
Commissioners, in accepting the board S
advice as to the relative importance of
items generally. may yet, If they omit
items considered by the board as of the
least Importance. avoid the submission of
estimates in such manner as to discrim-
mate between the races.
I'm other words. II the board submits
estimates which, by reason of the large
ness Of the total, must be materially re-
duced-as was the case last year-please
do not again group the items for colored
school buildings and grounds near the
end of the list, and thus cause the Com
missioners, in endeavor1ng to follow your
| advice. to cut of an unduly large pro-
portion Of items for colored school build
| ings and grounds"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20
NEW STORE FOR WOMEN.
N. Brooks & Co. to Specialize on
Modish Entertainments.

M. Brooks & Co. will enter Washing
tons business world with an exclusive
women's and misses outergarment shop
to be opened about September ID at 10!
6 street northwest. Mrs. NJ. Brooks. thu
title member of the new firm, has gained
an authoritative knowledge in the matter
Of women's dress through a successful
experience of the last ten or more years
That her experience has been local testi-
fees to her ability to know thoroughly the
needs of Washington women who aim to
dress modishly on more or less moderate
incomes. And to these needs Miss Brooks
will give personal supervision.
Realizing that commercial success in a
sartorial line depends almost as much
upon the personality of the saleswomer
as on the goods to be sold. the firm Is
selecting a force which will add signally
to the popularity of THE Shop of Per
sonal Service" The four stories of the
Conrad Becker building, which has beer
leased. are well adapted to the large and
exclusive stock Of women's and misses
apparel which the new establishment will
carry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20
Revision of Boards Estimates.

The communication Is the result of the
Commissioners having revised the esti-
mates submitted by the board of educa-
ton last year. The boards estimates
were $3.5+O,OOO, and the Commissioners
reduced them to $4,000.
After the estimates went to Congress
they were returned to the Commissioners
for q second revision to ascertain If the
proportion which Is to be maintained in
appropriations for white and colored
schools had been complied with.
According to the Commissioners. If the
board Of education had arranged the esti-
mates properly, the question as to the
proper proportion between white and col
ored schools would not have been raised
and the Commissioners would not have
been put in the position as being party
to the discrimination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20
PUT IN FALSE LIGHT
Commissioners Blame the
Board of Education.
ESTIMATES FOR SCHOOLS
Seeming Discrimination Against Col
ored Race.
RESULT OF METHOD CHOSEN
Educators Requested to Employ An.
other System Next Time That
Criticism May Be Avoided.

Charging the board Of education with
having Disseminated against the District
colored schools in the estimates which it
submitted for the current fiscal year, the
District Commissioners today sent a long
letter to the board urging IT to adopt a
different plan Of preparing it's estimates
in the future.
Hinged with caustic comment. the COM
munication is severe arraignment Of the
boards methods. These methods, it as
serts. have put the Commissioners in the
position of having Disseminated against
the colored race.
I'm the opinion of the Commissioners,
next to dishonesty, discrimination is the
greatest evil that can creep into mu-
nicpal administration" is one of the
comments in the communication.
When told Of the letter of the Com
misSioners, Capt. James F. Oyster, presi-
dent Of the board of education. expressed
surprise. He had not received a copy of
1t. but stated that he would reply to the
Commissioners as soon as he had had an
opportunity to read their charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20
MORE GEMS RECOVERED.
Additional Valuables Stolen From
Mrs. Payne Whitney Found.

PROVIDENCE. r. l., July 2O--Follow-
Ing the arrest In Boston of Israel Davis,
charged with the larceny Of ffteen-hun-
dred dollar diamond necklace belonging
to Mrs. Payne Whitney Of New York. and
the recovery Of the necklace, a five-hun-
dred-dollar gold cigarette case and sew
eral small articles of jewelry have been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20

Franklin, with the words "U. S. pos
tage" III a curved line above the por-
trait and the denomination in double
numerals at the bottom. making the
effect simple, but artistic. None Of the
colors has been selected, but they
probably will be different shades of
those used for the lower denomina-
lions. Those denominations from one
cent to six-cent will bear the head Of
Washington. with the present familiar
border design.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20

found here by the police of this city in
the home Of Rufus Davis, a cousin Of
the man under arrest.
Israel Davis recently had lodged with
his cousin and had left trunk there, In
which the articles were discovered. to-
eether with the bag. which contained
Mrs. whitney's necklace when she lost
Il on a visit to Boston July 8. The ar
ticles were later turned over to the Bos.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20

an operation. is improving rapidly and Is
now considered out OF danger.
Senator Lea. who submitted to a trans
fusion of a quart Of blood from his own
veins in an effort to save the life of Mrs.
Lea. will leave in a few days for their
home in Nashville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20
MRS. LUKE LEA Is BETTER.
Wife of Tennessee Senator Improv-
ing Rapidly in Denver.

DENVER. July D.-Mrs. Luke Lea.
wife Of United States Senator Lea of
Tennessee. who was rushed to Denver
last week from Deer Park. Md. while
she was suffering from q relapse following
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20
Approves New Stamp Designs.

Postmaster General Hitchcock has
approved the new designs Of postage
stamps. The new eight-cent, ten-cent.
fifteen-cent. fifty-cent and one-dollar
designs will bear the portrait Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20

The Allegany MD county commission
ers have decided to purchase q pair OF
bloodhound pups for the use Of the OH
GERS of the county in tracing criminals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20

ton police. No action was taken against
Rufus Davis. who declared that he knew
nothing of the affair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20
COMMISSIONER Letter.

The full letter of the Commissioners is
as follows:
Last year the Commissioners requested
the board Of education to keep the total
Of its estimates for school purposes al
about 100000. The board Of education
later, when transmitting its estimates tc
the Commissioners aggregating more than
s., 10000, stated that
1.-The items of sites and buildings have
been arranged in the order of their i'm
portance.'
Ut must have been we'll known to the
board that the Commissioners would be
obliged to cut the estimates which it sub
mitted, and that in order to have the
benefit of the wisdom Of the board 1t
would cut off items for school buildings
and grounds from the bottom Of the. list
of items which 1t furnished. Now you
placed only one small item for colored
schools ($15 OOO above the middle of your
list of seventeen items. while below the
middle of your list you placed but two
items for white schools.
1T thus must have been obvious to the
board Of education that II the Commits
sioners cut out the items indicated by 1t
as of least Importance they would neces-
sarily reduce the percentage of the whole
applicable to colored schools
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-20
Early Session Of Board Unlikely.

The letter Of the Commissioners will,
1t is expected, arouse no little interest in
school circles. More than two-thirds Of
the members Of the board of education
are out of the city, which will make i'm
possible the converting of that body at
any time soon to consider the charges.
Although Capt Oyster would make
no statements today, 1t is expected that
he will vigorously defend the action of
the board.
An interesting controversy that may
arise will be an attempt by the board to
ascertain whether the Commissioners
have a right to revise it's estimates.
1t has been suggested that the Com
missioners may only send q report to
Congress with the boards estimates and
that 1t has no authority to revise them.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-24
MILTON, IND.

MILTON. Ind. Oct 24.-Mrs. Mauk
Of Cambridge City, was the guest OF
Mrs. H. H. Heist. Saturday
Mrs. T. NJ. McClung visited her sis
ter, Mrs. Isaac Doddridge. over Sun
day, in the Doddridge neighborhood.
Mesdames McClung and Doddridge
were entertained at dinner with Mr..
and Mrs. Pierce and the Misses Spahr,
Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Bales, OF north of Char.
lottesville, is visiting Mrs. r. P. Lind
say.
Charles Atkinson, of South Bend,
was the guest of his mother, Mrs. Eli
zabeth Atkinson, the latter part of the
week. Mr.. Atkinson was formerly of
Richmond.
Will Pence, Of Indianapolis, spent
Sunday In Milton, as the guest OF Mr..
and Mrs. Jas Coons and Mrs. Ann
Hoshour and family.
Erie Locke, of Cambridge City.
spent Sunday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. l. N. Locke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Brattain enter.
tanned as guests at dinner, Sunday, Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. Yohlar, of near Harris
burg. Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Hicks, of
east of town, also Miss Meta Hicks,
Mrs. Dot Cornthwaite had az her
lguestA The latteE naEt II tha week Ma