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Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1911-06-16
PinCher Creek to be Tapped?
Local Wisacres Sitting Up"
D-sstent the effect that the Hills have pur-
chased the Alberta Railway and will tap the
Pincher Greek field. Survey from
Cut Bank to famous coal field

The whole country and the North |
west in particular continues to be
curious concerning the big bond is
sue of the Hill system and there are
rumors of extensions, purchasing OF
Canadian lines and terminal i'm
provements galore. Some of the
rumors the Hills deny; others they
affirm.
The latest stir in railway circles
that will be watched with keen in
terest by the people of this section
is the reported purchase of the AL
berta railway. The papers report
ed this purchase few days ago and
the plans of the Hill people were
given out. If they are true the AL
berta railway will tap the famous
Pincher Greek coal country and be
extended northward to Hudson Bay.
From Pincher Greek the road will
be extended south, to connect with
the main line-and here is where
Cut Bank people will sit upright
and take notice.
Two years ago one of the head
field engineers of the Great North
ern came to Cut Bank. Here he
secured the services of A. L. Bud"
Allison and drove from here along
the Cut Bank river bed to what is
known as "Whiskey Gap" near the
boundary line. About three weeks
were spent in going over this route
Did we say that Messrs. Potter
and Taft were Follower by Neme-
sis during their trip on the Black.
feet reserve? Well, here is the con-
Guiding chapter. Mr.. Taft secured
a handsome string of fifteen fish.
This trophy gave him much solace
and he tenderly laid them away in a
secluded corner of the pantry. The
pet cat of the Taft household watch
ed this proceeding slyly and next
morning the fish and a long willow
stick on which they were secured
were on the missing list. The pet
cat is somewhat out of favor just at
present.
The band boys desire to have the
Pioneer Press announce that they
will give another open-air musicale
at the river next Sunday afternoon
and that lemonade, ice cream, cake
and other delicacies will be on sale.
Since moving his traction outfit
out south of town, Geo. J. Berens
has plowed big acreage for H. w.
Zell, who pronounces it better job
than could have been done with
horses and single plows. Mr. Ber
ems has had long experience in turn
ing the sod and never fails to give
complete satisfact i MS h e b Y
News.
Two youthful adventures from
across the Canadian border were
found here one day last week, by
the father of one of the boys. A
little starvation period had some
what dulled their desire for the SEN
sation of travel and they were de-
lighted with the prospects of get
ting home unharmed.
Mrs. A. J. Whitehead left late in
, the week for a visit at her old home
Hastings, MINI. She will also visit
at Mankato, where a number OF
years were spent.
Miss Kathleen Sullivan, who has
been student at the Sisters Aca.
denny at Helena, returned home
! Wednesday evening to spend the
summer vacation.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1911-06-16

and the engineer then disclosed the
plans of the Great. Northern to Mr..
Allison. These plans were the tap
ping of the Pincher Greek coal
fields by branch line running out
from Cut Bank. The engineer de-
clared that the river bed would
make an ideal right of way and easy
access to water at all times would
be assured. There would be no
bridging and not a great deal of
grading. The coal could be freight
ed to Cut Bank-the nearest point
on an air line to Pincher Creek
and shipped both ways from here.
The route was carefully plated by
the engineer, who stated that it
would be filed in the head offices
and that work would commence
within couple lie of years. That was
in July, 1909.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1911-06-16

Mr.. and Mrs. George Berens were
callers Thursday and Mr.. Berens
stated that his outfit had turned
over several hundred acres between
here and Shelby. By the way, Mrs.
Berens operates the steam engine,
and has the distinction of being the
only lady engineer in this section of
Montana at least.
BIRTH-To Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Dew
ing, Thursday, June 18th, girl.
S. w. Buck; Il believe clover can
be grown here successfully. l have
a fine patch on my farm east of Cut
Bank"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1911-06-16

1t is given out officially that the
Fargo Surrey line will be completed
this summer and this will give the
G. N. the shortest line to the coast.
At present the Milwaukee holds this
distinction.
According to the Minneapolis
Journal J. J. Hill is in a very cheer
full mood and predicts an era of
great prosperity and railway i'm
provements in the Northwest this
fall and next season.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23

lar piece of land where the grapes
are grown is held at $1..OO per acre.
"There is under consideration an
electric trolley line for the purpose
of transporting the fruit from that
district to the railroad in Lewiston.
When this project is completed 1t
will no doubt increase the land sew
eral hundred dollars per acre. The
wheat land lies on top the noun
tains and the wheat has to be
freighted into the city, the teams
hauling as high as 200 bushels to
the trip, as rule they have four
horses to the wagons and trailer as
the loads are all down hill. There
are several little towns along the
Snake river, the population ranging
from 1000 upward and the wheat
is carried from these places, into
Lewistown by steamboat, and they
haul about 1000 sacks to the trip.
1t cost 71sc per bushel to freight
the wheat that is hauled 10 miles
to the steamboat which plies be-
tween the smaller towns and Lewis
ton where 1t is delivered to the rail-
load.
"There Is also a project under way
to build water route from st. Paul
to Portland and the commercial
clubs that are interested are hold
ing their meetings here regularly.
There was an excursion into Lewis
ton from Portland Monday, consist
ing of ninety of the businessmen
belonging to the commercial club at
Portland. The members of the
commercial club at Lewiston are all
energetic, ambitious men and you
would be surprised at the number
of conventions that are held here.
Lewiston is located in the valley
and has two rivers that fork into
the city, one from the southeast
known as the Snake river and the
other from the northwest known as
the Clearwater river. Duck, quail
and snipe hunting are fine and I
went out yesterday and brought back
seven ducks, three snipe and bunch
of quail"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23
BLoopHoUND EVIDENCE.

In Brown county trial has just
been held in which the defendant
was accused on bloodhound evidence.
The World says: In the latter part
of August W. V. Basket notified
the president of the Anti-Thief as
sociatlon of Morrill, that he had lost
"a Jars of fruit from his cave. Fol-
lowing this action came Mr.. Rem
seeker from Beatrice, Nebr., with
his bloodhounds and with a crowd
OF from 200 to 800 citizens Of the
township a chase was started. The
dogs halted at the first two farm
houses they came to and the two
defendants in this action, resided IN
these houses. Then Mr.. Basket,
who is an uncle to one of these
bows, swore out a warrant against
them Aug. "a; and the defendants
we're arrested and Jailed. They were
subsequently taken before Squire
Lyle where the evidence OF several
witnesses we're taken, but the dog
man was not present. The county
attorney asserting that the evidence
Of the dog man must be had,i the
case was continued over to Sept l
for that purpose, when the justice
considering that there was probable
cause, bound the defendants over
to district court and they readily
gave appearance bonds. At the time
the World remarked that dog evil
dence was no evidence at all, that
the dogs probably followed the d.
rection Of the owner or they got
tired by the time they reached the
first farm houses-that these young
men were Of fine families, old time
settlers, that spite showed itself in
the preliminary proceedings. that the
AntI-Thief association having sent
for the dogs and paid SIS for the
chase, was DESTROYS Of making their
first case stick, and finally that the
case would be apt to result in a way
that these boys would be justified
in bringing action for false inn
prisonmsnt, yet the case was push
ed Is lf II were murder. It met
It's Waterloo as above stated and The
taxpayers can foot the big bill Of
costs for the fun. for the case vas
thrown out Of court for lack Of evi-
dence. and Judge instrueting the
Jury to bring in a verdict favorable
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %. 1911
noe CHOLERA, NOT POLITICS.

Kansas Farmer: Right now 1t Is
not politics that Is interesting the
people of Kansas, but the hog choi-
era. In our nearby town those VINO
have from one to q half dozen shoats
in pens, as town folks are apt to
keep them, are wondering II they
are going to have any left. the
disease cannot exactly be pronounced
cholera but it certainly Is as fatal
There is no question but what 1t Is
equally as contagious as cholera,
also. With corn high in price ana
hogs not cheap, the loss OF re"
head is keenly felt, especially as
one man said, now that taxes are
due and the "hog money" comes In
handy to pay them. Taxes, which
have a habit OF being a little more
each year, must be paid, whether
the hogs live or not. Corn husking
is being started, with no promise OF
any agreeable surprises ahead. The
prices clings close to the sixty-cent
mark, fifty-eight In some towns and
sixty in others. The man who was
going to buy corn for quarter this
fall has been keeping strangely silent
on the subject Of the corn market
for some weeks. There will be no
cheap feeding done this year, as both
cattle and hogs will cost consid-
cradle money by the time they are
finished for the market.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23
rAxATIoN oF MORTGAGES.

There are many logical reasons
why money, notes and mortgages
should be exempt from taxation. To-
day on another page, the Beacon
prints an interview with P. ]. Conk-
lin, one of the leading mortgage
brokers of Wichita. Mr.. Conklin
emphasizes the point that the pres
ent tax system practically prohibits
the investment of local money in
mortgages. With a tax Of one and
half per cent in sight, no citizen
can afford to loan money to his
neighbor, no matter how good the
security. In fact, the better the
security, the less his opportunity
It is a rule in money matters that
the better the security, the lower
the rate. The United States can
hire money for two to three per
cent. Wichita can borrow at five
per cent, but the average real estate
mortgage yields about six per cent
As Mr.. Conklin explains, the city
bond bearing five per cent, is bet
ter investment than the very best
real estate loan bearing six per cent,
because the bond Is untaxed, while
the mortgage pays tax Of one and
half per cent II owned in the city.
Thus the tax on the mortgage pro-
hibits its ownership within the state.
This is but one feature of the many
injustices to be pointed out and the
Beacon will follow with views from
other experts in the mortgage bust
ness.-Wichita Beacon.
All Of which Is true. Taxation Of
mortgages is directly in the interest
Of the foreign investor and against
the home investor. But you can't
blame It on Dickinson county. Its
representative. c. A. Case, twice se-
cured a mortgage registration Law
but Gov. Stubs vetoed It.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23
CON KENNEDY TELLS
OF NORTHWEST WONDERS

G. T. Kennedy, manager OF Par
er's No. 1 show, writes to the Re-
Hector from Lewiston, Idaho, where
the show is in winter quarters:
81 closed one of the biggest sea-
sons in the history of the Parker
show with my company, and the No
2 show was very successful which
YOU know was also under my per-
sonal supervision this season.
1--WE played to capacity business
throughout Canada. The wheat and
oats crop were immense, also the
flax, and 1t is unusual to meet a
pauper in the Dominion of Canada
I find the Canadian people are A l
to do business with and they attri-
butte a great deal Of their success
to the American farmers who are
going into that country and they
seem to think they are more ener-
getic, and have more push about
them than the foreigners. / bought
some land a year ago in Canada ana
have $50 acres in wheat and oats
and want to say it was a bumper
crop. While the crops were put
back to some extent on account OF
the cool weather l have received
only favorable reports from there
since 1 left the Canadian territory
eve entered Canada at Brandon
Manitoba, and our route laid as fol-
lows: Edmonton, Calgary, Vancou-
yer, B. c., and then down along the
coast through Washington, Oregon
and into Idaho where we closed for
the winter. We are now situated
on the Snake river valley and 1t is
beautiful. The climate is moderate
and delightful and. the country
around here is very prosperous and
they raise abundant crops of wheat
and oats. l never saw such orchards
as they have here. There is one
orchard of $4,000 acres two miles
from the city of Lewiston, and the
land is selling from $500 to $1,000
per acre. This land is under sub
irrigation. There are also 1000
acres more which they are thing to
lay out in orchards. This land il
sold in plots Of five acres and up
ward and the company takes care Of
it for five years and then turns II
over to the purchaser. We picked
numerous punches Of grapes that
weighed from tow to two and one
half pounds a bunch. This particu'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23
Aa THE EAsT SEES I'd.

This Is the way the New York
Sun views some recent Kansas his
tory: In the First New Jersey con-
gress district w. J. Browning was
elected representative on Tuesday,
his expenditures amounting to $685.
70. His Democratic opponent spent
$7O9. Representative-elect Almy OF
the Fourteenth Pennsylvania dis
trict paid out $1,000 to defeat Oscar
H. Rockwell, whose campaign cost
him $S56.2O. But in Kansas, where
political wickedness and corporations
are abhored, these things are man
aged better:
"U. s. Guyer, Republican candi'
date in the Second Kansas district
states that the Republican campaign
committee required from him before
the primaries the payment Of $4,000
In addition he spent $961.SS. Mr.
Taggart says he received $3.50 from
Congressman James T. Lloyd of Mis-
souri,, chairman Of the Democratic
national congressional committee, II
aid of his campaign. In addition hi
spent $3.50 for railroad fare ant
81 for cigars"
There is an ominous sound to thu
statement that the Republican cam
paign committee required of HIM
$4,000 before the primaries. II
Queens county such thing is inter
preted as raw work" or 'hideoui
corruption" according to the tempel
of the Interpreter. In New Jersey
the use Of so large a sum would
never be tolerated. In Pennsylvania
It would create al scandal. In any
of these communities a pre-primary
assessment would cause an uphea-
val.
But in Bleeding Kansas they know
how to bleed candidates, even in a
primary campaign. They are practical
people, who will soon demand the
ante-primary as a necessary adjunct
and complement of the primary form
of government, All the new pana-
ceas facilitate the circulation of mon
ey when they are applied to the poll
tical affairs of Kansas and other
truly progressive states. BY the
way, Guyer is a highly progressive
Republican.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23
WAGES FOR THE WIVES.

1t is proposed in England that
wives shall have wages for their
work, says the Industrialist. Why
not? II man is SO stingy that he
makes his wife ask for every cent
she spends, then the law should COM
pei him to pay her a stated wage, as
England may do at no distant day.
1t will prove to be the only way in
which many a wife will ever have a
dollar, or tupence, or whatever it is
they give them over there.
OF course, If the husband chance to
be gentleman-and this does hap
pen more frequently than you may
suspect-he will give his wife an al
lowance every month or every week,
or whenever he gets his stippendiary
emoluments. He will put this allow
ance In the bank in her name, and
she will have her own cute little
check book, and It will forever and
ever be filled with stubs. Red ink be
always seen in her bank book, be-
canse she'll spend her money as fast
as she gets It, and 9S per cent Of II
will go for the things for the house
and the children and the husband,
And he will growl like sick beai
n. in an emergency, she should ask
for an extra ten dollars or guinea
The proposed law should take care
Of this contingency, too. 1t should
arrange a method by which the hus
band would be led to the basement
and kept there thirty minutes while
the children threw coal at him.
But a still better way is to in
struct the bank to charge her check
to her husbands account and theE
she will not have to worry sbou
oveFdrafts.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23

To safeguard the health of Kansas
towns, the state board of health has
made a ruling that every town in the
state which has a ground water sup
ply must have an analysis Of the
water made once year by the Uni
versity of Kansas. The time of TAX
ing the samples will be varied in
successive years, to determine the
condition of the water at different
seasons. The idea is a good one.
The University should commence on
Lawrence and make the analysis
once a week. Sd
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23

This reproof from the Kansas City
Globe is thorough: William Allen
White is now admitting that the
Guyer Second district nomination
steel was a raw deal. 1t was no
rawer, however, than the respectable
of Mr.. White, purlst, publicist and
reformer, waiting till the show was
all over to express his real senti-
ments."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23

The public must walt patiently
or otherwise, to see whether trust
Is really busted" when It is split
into a half dozen smaller corpora
tons with the same set Of stock
holders. The tendency Of the aver
age man to compete with himself
is not fierce, and we can hardly
wonder that southern tobacco grow
ers are not enthusiastic over the
outlook. They have suffered much
at the hands Of the trust, and are
justified in demanding permanent
relief. A national Incorporation law
under which no man or company
would be permitted to hold stock
IN two concerns engaged in similar
or allied business, may yet be evok-
ed 10 do what the Sherman law Is
not likely to accomplish. The aver
age voter cannot see Why the su-
preme court did not make through
work while Il was on the Job.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23

Up at BellevilIe husky slx-foot-
err aged 20 years was smoking a
cigar in the parlor of his mothers
hotel The mayor saw him, had
him arrested and fined SO under
the law prohibiting minors from
smoking in public places. Every
little while Kansas does something
that lifts 1t notch or two In the
fool column.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23

While the chancellor and the re-
gents of the University OF Kansas
were visiting the University of Wis
consin this week, President Van Hise
said: "A French visitor to this coun-
try who is writing book on the
states Of America, told me the other
day that Kansas and Wisconsin af-
forded the best examples of the peo-
pie governing themselves that he had
seen In all his travels"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23


An agricultural editor who spoke
at the University of Wisconsin last
week announced that so great has
been the country uplift in recent
years that as per cent of farmers
now have telephones, So per cent
carry high grade watches to five per
cent who carry the dollar variety
and 1874 per cent own pianos These
percentages apply to several thous-
and replies answering queries sent
out by the editor. This tendency
of the farmer, which may be said to
be general in these days of prosper
ity, is not due to extravaganza but
to the belief that enjoyment OF the
good things of life should be In pro-
portion to ones ability to afford
them.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23

TAls is the kind Of stuff for which
wichita is paying Billy Sunday, the
baseball evangelist. $1,000 = week;
II stand here as a representative Of
God. represent the Son Of Cod
Come on. you damnabIe, bear-eyed
dirty dogs Of corruption. ! def
ycu 20 your teeth. Take some q
TIE s,uffing out o. jour prayers and
sralrhtsa up." Msybs d = Vha'
Wiehila uectl
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23
THE PUPILS AND THE FLAG.


Supt. Steen calls attention to the
fact that only about cne-fifth Of the
Dickinson county schools obey the
state law and have flags-and most
Of those do not fly them. A New
York paper describes the reception
OF the flag by New York city's
youth during two miles of march Of
the Columbus day parade. That re-
ception is best expressed by a big
round cipher. The flag was ignored
not only by the young people, but
by the older citizens as well. 1t
"won the salute Of raised hats only
from two middle-aged men,"
This is what the New York Press
has to say about 1t:
"There must be something sadly
lacking in the spirit Of an educa-
tional system when the youth, Of the
city of New York do not carry out
side of it's scholastic walk the real
meaning of the ceremony Of the sa-
lutte to the banner that 10 the en-
blem of our home and our liberty.
It would seem that the matter Of
the salute to the flag needed some
application in the public school
curriculum"
| This Is true enough, perhaps, but
1t does not cover the whole ground.
Formal instruction in patriotism and
patriotic observance is desirable and
not without good effect, but we ser
iously question whether any efforts
on the part of our schools In this
direction can be of vital service when
the press and the platform in all too
many cases exercise counter In
| fluence.
For the attitude of the people to
the flag is but symphonic OF their
larger attitude toward the nation
and its government. What breaks
down loyalty, devotion and respect In
the one case breaks down loyalty,
devotion and respect in the other.
There Is tolerated by public opin-
ion today looseness, contempt and
even violence of utterance with re-
gard to our governmental system, our
national institutions and our chief
executive officer than cannot but
infect the immature mind with a
lack of respect and regard for those
offices and symbols which naturally
and legitimately inspire and sustain
the patriotic sentiment.
Whether school children repudiate
the training and fail to salute the
flag in New York or whether men
repudiate their manhood, their citi-
zenship and their God and attempt
to dynamite the train of the presi-
dent-both acts are symphonic OF
the effect which the hateful license
given to reasonable or unpatriotic
speech is exercising upon the Ameri-
can mind.
Such diseases cannot be cured by
law. They can be cured by public
opinion. And the press would do
more toward the creation of that
public opinion if, instead Of 80 large
ly harping on what 1t considers the
faults in our government and its
administration, it would illuminate
the manifold blessings and advan-
tages for which every citizen of this
republic has such great reason to
be thankful.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-11-23
To Run Special Train.

The Rock Island railroad will run
a special train from Harrington to
Salina on December to aecommo-
date the Shriners who want to go
to Salina to attend the meeting in
salina. This meeting Of the Shrine
will be one Of the largest ever held.