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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-13
FARMERS FROM FIFTEEN STATES IN OPPOSITION
 TO RECIPROCITY BILL
Storm of Proes Either by Letter to Ta or Voiced Before the Senate Finance Committee, Has Been Made Against
 Adoption of the Proposed Treaty With Canada

Opposition to the reciprocity bill, by letter to President Taft, and personal protest against the adoption of the measure was voiced, this week, before the Sen- ate Finance Committee by delega- tiOns of farmers from the follow ing states:
 Connecticut, Massachusetts, New New York, Michigan, Missouri, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maine, Kentucky, Colorado, Ore. gon, Washington.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-13
RALPH KELLARD
Leading Man at R. M Sperry' Production of
 t'The Marriage Game'

testimony relative to the mechanical revolution that the Knight sleeve valve motor has wrought in the Brit ish Isles and upon the European con- tinent, that an exhaustive analysis or Charles Y. Knights invention recent ly was requested at meeting of the American Society of Automobile En- gineers, held in Detroit Mich. David Ferguson, chief engineer of the mak- CTS of the Pierce-Arrow car said- '"The Knight engine is delivering the goods and the Daimler Company can sell more than it can manufacture The motor is giving excellent results. and is more silent than you can get with poppet valves. The public wants actual silence in motors, and if it demands such conditions we musE re-design the poppet valves or use other types. I do not know that this motor gives extra power at low speeds but it gives much more at nigh speeds. The perfect water jacketing of the Knight motor as compared with the poppet valve type is excellent. One big advantage i'm conjunction with the sliding sleeve motor is lack of variation. In the poppet valve type the strength of the ty-fve per cent after six months, use, and after one year the valves are found sticking up as well as car- bonizing. This does not happen in motors with sleeve valves"
 The Pierce Company has purchased Daimler car, equipped with as sleeve-valye engine and developing thirty-eight horse power with it's four cylinders. This machine is utilized in making comparisons. This com- pany also has built for its own gse q. six cylinder sleeve-valve type motor. The Knight engine has been officially adopted by the Daimler Company in Great Britain, the Mercedes in Ger many, the Panhard in France, the Minerva in Belgium, the Society In- dustrielle Genyoise in Switzerland and the DeLuca Daimler in Italy.
 ON THE WATER WAGON.
 Charles Splitdorf Of Magnetic fame. generally has a, new story up his sleeve and his latest deals with the romantic and scenery-loving young man who ran up against an old salt at Asbury Park with the following line of talk said MT. Mush. "Ah, my friend, how well you must know the face of nature, and love her fin all her moods. Have you ever seen the sun sinking in a glare of glory and swallowing up the horizon with fireZ Have you seen the mist gliding down the hilltop like a spectre? Have you never,'' he went on impassionedly. "seen the moon struggling to shake off the grip of the ragged. rugged salt, "Tm on the water wagon now
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-13
Special from United Press)

(SpeCldI rom UnIted PreSS)
 Washington, May 13.-An uprising among the farmers, without preced- ent in spread or intensity, today, marks a weeks discussion before the Senate Finance Committee in the consideration of the Canadian recip- rocity bill.
 From Michigan have come letters bringing more than 50,0O0 names pro- testing against the bill. Many of these contain the cheerful pledge:
 We hereby agree that we will not support any man for office who works or votes for the passage of this bill.''
 In the forefront of the fight is the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-13

EVERYBODY THINKS THAT SATISFACTION COAL IS THE BEST IN THE CITY
 TT IS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-13
MOLD DESTROYS INSULATION.

THE SLEEVE VALVE MOTOR.
 So insistent has become the demand among the progressive American man. ufacturers of motor cars for expert
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-13

Excellence personi1ed NUGGETS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-13

NUGGET has no equal.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
WAS MUCH ALIVE LAST SPRING.

The reported death last year of
Herman Hilderbrand in the Death
Valley desert of Neveda, seems to
have only been rumor, as "Dock"
Red6eld, who has just returned
from the southern country, saw
Herman at Cascade, about twenty
li.nea ..v.a Goldfelds, New, last
April. He was then packing up
for trip into the hills. Herman
had found nothing in the Nevada
country worth while and said he
intended gradually working north
from there through California and
Oregon. We would not be the
least surprised to see him back
here again on his old stamping
grounds. For they all come back.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
LIBBY COMMERCIAL
CLUB ORGANIZED
Business Men Get Together
and Form Organization----
Will Have Publicity for Lib
by Along Modern Lines.

Or Tuesday night, at Plum
nler's hall, was held an enthusias-
tic and we'll attended meeting for
the purpose of organizing a com
mercial club, along the lines sug-
gested in the Herald last week.
Mr.. Gray acted as chairman and
Mr.. Skeels as secretary. About
fifty men signed the membership
roll. A comtvitte consisting of
Messrs. Millett, Wall, Plummer
Faust and Maiden was appointed
to formulate bylaws and general
scheme of organization, to be re-
ported at meeting called for next
Thursday evening at Plummer's
hall. Permanent quarters, a per-
manent salaried secretary, efficient
publicity work, developing and
and fostering new enterprises are
contemplated.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
SUIT STARTED
OVER PLACERs
Valuable Ground the Bone of
Contention. Livery Active
Mining Camp has it's Litiga-
ton. and Libby is Getting in
Fashion.

One of the evidences of a pros
porous mining camp is mining l1ti-
CATION. An important piece of
litigation involving some valuable
placer properties on Libby creek
and damages to the amount of
some seven thousand dollars was
started on August 10Th by F. N.
Campell, and his associates repres-
enting some St. Joseph Mo-, cap
italists, against John H. Town and
VIM. Criderman.
The trouble seems to have aris
en- over the title of about $50
acres of placer ground on Libby
creek, which Town and Criierman
claimed and had contracted to sell
to Campbell.
1t now transpires that the Libby
Placer company claims the ground S
and doubtless the real ownership
of this valuable placer will be ad-
Indicated in connection with the
pending damage suit.
The values lately shown to pre-
vail through this placer field, are
more than hattering, all along Lib
by creek, for a distance of several
miles both ways from Old Town.
And while big developments and
flattering production are being
made by the Libby Placer Co. and
the Comet Placer and several
others working along the creek;
still bigger things are promised in
the near future.
Another year will doubtless see
two or three more hydraulic and
dredging plants installed in this
placer field, in addition to the three
big hydraulic plants now operating.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
TROY TO HAVE
SHIPPING Mine
Building Roads and Bridges, at
Big Eight Bodies of
Ore Exposed and Property
is Ready to Go to Market.

County Commissioner Pratt visit
ed Troy last Thursday and Friday,
on road business.
Manager McCaffery of the Big
Eight is building about mile and
a half of road to connect the
mine with the county road leading
to Troy and the county will put in
two bridges on the road, one ac-
ross Hale creek and the other ac-
ross Gordon Both will be good
substantial bridges, each about 100
feet long, This road is being
opened up SO that the Big Eight
may begin shipping ore and the
same road will serve the B. & B.
an adjoining property.
Mr.. Pratt during the trip, took
occasion to visit the Big Eight
property and examine the work
going on Over 100 tons of ship
ping ore are now on hand and
great bodies of clean ore are ex-
posed in various parts of the work
ings. A crosscut tunnel cuts the
vein and this has been drifted in
both ways from the crosscut prob
ably 500 feet. At one point FIVE
feet of solid zinc ore is exposed.
In the face of each drift the vein
is between five and six feet in
width, of which nearly three feet
is clean shipping ore and the bal
ance concentrating.
The property has all the ear
marks of big thing iu mining, in
the opinion of Mr.. Pratt, who is
one of the best mining engineers
of the state. An immense amonnt
ore has been exposed and the vein
shows up strong for several hum
dred feet without reaching the end
of the shoot.
Troy will be the shipping point
and is about eight miles from the
mine. When the property is
equipped with machinery and
working at its capacity it will Of
ford big payroll for the town and
community, and be decided slim
ulus in encouraging the develop
ment of other properties in the
same vicinity.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
Strike on the Hidden Treasure

Geo. Hathaway has just re-
turned TO town from his Hidden
Treasure claim at the head of Lib
by creek, where he has been doing
some development work.
The news he brings with him Is
of the most encouraging nature
At depth of 200 feet he has brok
Ell into an ore body which bids
fair to mean much for the camp.
The vein shows six feet of ore and
neither wall has been touched, the
ore carrying gold, silver, copper
and some lead. Free gold can be
seen III many pieces shot down
from the face of the lead.
The recent work done has been
but twenty feet when the ore body
was broken into, and this strike
came by reason of the fact that be-
fore this last work was undertaken
the tunnel was cut to the west and
the ore body was encountered.
How far the 2oo-foot tunnel has
been paralleling this ore shoot is,
Of course, not known until series
of CrOsscuts have been made.
We may look for some further
developments on this
property at>any time, as it is the
to follow up the strike
Just made with further work.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
Local News Items From Troy

Raphael Zon, of the forest ser.
vice, Washington, D. c., in charge
OF forest studies, accompanied by
Supervisor Skeels, visited Troy
last week to select the weather and
experiment stations for the Troy
district. Mr.. Zon has decided to
divide the apparatus between the
Bening and Dennis stations.
The forestry people are repairing
the Sylvanite- Troy telephone line,
and building an extension of 22
miles up the Yahk from Sylvanite
to the Olson ranger station.
Marsh Roberts and Lou Hale
have returned from the Pipe creek
country.
J. II. Ehlers, accompanied by
an engineer from Minneapolis,
a few days ago visited the Yahk.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
Items from West Fisher Camp

We are indebted to Ed Bowman
for some West Fisher news.
The company now having the
Blacktail group is repairing the
stamp mill and fixing up three set
tling tanks for cyanidipg.
John Fredericks will resume
work on his claim above the Black
tail, next week. Some of the fin
est specimens of the camp have
come from the Fredrick claim.
VIM. Williams and Jos. Allen
are doing development work on
Great Northern mountain.
Active work is going on on the
Anna claim, under the direction of
J. J. Hibbard. This is one of the
most promising properties of the
camp. A tunnel is in on the lead
70 feet, the vein carrying from IS
inches to two feet of rich free-mill-
ing ore. 1t is the intention to
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

Jos. FELTON, of Spokane this week
visited the Bunker Hill group on
Leigh creek, in which property he
is interested with other Spokane
men. During his visit he let
contract to Geo. Mckay to extend
the tunnel 50 feet further. The
property is looking exceptionally
well, and this contract is the first
of a total of 500 feet to be 1un this
winter.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
BALL GAME SUNDAY NOT VERY SWIFT OR EXCITING

The ball game between the Lib
by Reds and the Rexford team last
Sunday was very much of a Jug
handled affair--in fact, the upriver
visitors were SO completely out
classed that the home nine were
scarcely afforded a good practice
game, In the end inning the Reds
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

w. J. Sprague of Warland wa;
in Libby Monday on school busi-
ness. A movement is on foot to
take a part of the Jennings district
and annex it to Warland and es-
tablish an adMlonal school to ac-
commoda e a number of children
who are now very much inconven-
fenced in their school facilities.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

knocked the ball to all corners of
the garden, the scorer marking up
eight runs, After this inning, ev-
cry member of the home team took
a turn in the box, probably for
fielding exercise. In the general
melee the visitors came across two
times in the 9th, the final score be
ing Libby IS, Rexford 2.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

week and an interview with Super
visor Skeels gives some informa
ton which is of more than passing
local interest.
The Kootenai forest reserve is
the second largest in the country,
exceeded only by the Blackfoot
and by but few acres, but it is
probably the only reserve in the
state of Montana that is on rev.
enue-paying basis. 1t has been
the general opinion that the IS per
cent of the timber-sale receipts is
returned to the counties from
where the revenue came, to be
used for road and school purposes,
but this is not the case. If this
were the practice, Lincoln county
would receive fully twice the year
ly sum it now receives. By legis-
lative act 1t is distributed among
the forest reserves according to the
acreage of such reserve. A re-
serve may not turn out fifty dollars
in timber sales in a year and yet
receive several thousand dollars.
1t happens that the Kootenai forest
is particularly active in the sales
department and is likely to be for
some time to come for several rea-
sons. The timber stands are heav-
ier than in most reserves and the
many logging streams bring it in
close touch to transportation lines.
Much has been said about the
distribution of the road money;
that it should 60 to the three com
missioner districts in proportion
to the receipts from each districts
in timber sales. If this could be
followed to carry out the conten
tion-it would figure about as fol-
lows, taking the records for the
past two years, during Mr., Skeels'
administration: Troy s. per cent,
Libby rs per cent, Eureka per
cent.
Another interesting feature
brought out by the records in the
forest supervisor office is money
upon roads by the de-
partment. There is no effort made
to expend the money for such
work on an assessment basis or
basis, but the work is done
where most needed according to
the funds available by congression-
al appropriation.
Libby is the headquarters for
The Kootenai reserve and it is the
policy of the supervisor, and it is
sound and businesslike, to connect
with the different
sections of the reserve by roads,
rails and telephone lines, the bet
er to reaci, these sections more
quickly and efficiently govern and
control the parts from the central I
ooint. This would be the case were ,
he headquarters at any other f
,oint in the reserve, s.,
But it so happens, and without +
t being the intention to do so for a
he reason stated above, that the t
expenditures for the past two years Y
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
SEWER BONDS
BRING PREMIUM
Chicago Buyer Takes Town
Offering, and Work Will
Soon Start on Big Sewer
Project.

Ihe city council held special
session last Tuesday evening,
which was decidedly important
one. The sewer bonds tor $40 900
was sold to G. H. Coffin of Chica-
60, one of the large bond and
mortgage dealers of the country.
These bonds brought premium of
$1o1, the purchaser also furnishing
the printed forms. The money is
expected to be here in few days.
Fifteen thousand dollars of this
bond sale goes into the sewer fund
and work will start upon the sys.
tenn as soon as the details can be
perfected. The plans and specif-
cations of the main outlet sewer,
by City Engineer Duthie, have al.
ready been passed upon and ac-
cepted by the council, This out
let sewer will run from Mineral
avenue on First, west to the city
limits, then northerly through the
Remp ranch into the mouth of
Flower creek. The rights of way
for the sewer were granted and
filed yesterday with City Clerk
Rice.
The entire system covered by
this issue of bonds will constitute
the main sewer, the laterals being
provided for Ny special improve
ment districts. There will prob
ably be three parts to the main
sewer line, and the first part will
consist of the main outlet sewer,
which work will be the first to be
undertaken.
The civic Improvements already
installed, those now being built
and this later one provided for
and soon to begin, Libby will be
one of the likeliest little cities in
the state for comfort, convenience
and health, proving particularly
attractive to pre- spective home
builders from outside points. These
progressive features are already
causing inquiries from heads of
families who desire to come here and
live in a mild climate and sur
rounded by those civic impove-
ments which all wide-awake cities
adopt as part of their policy. 4
Other matters acted upon by the
council at Tuesdays meeting was
the acceptance of Contractor Nash's
work in cement walks in Improve
ment District No. 3. all claims be-
ing settled and closed up.
The council also approved the
report of the census enumerator and
adopted a resolution advancing
Libby to the status of a third-class
city, and the same was filed with
the county clerk and with the sec
retary of state.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

Under the new registration law
notaric9 public are allowed IS
cents for each voter registered, but
the official is required to wait until
after election before being paid
and then receives only the fee for
each registered person who votes.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
Total S299o.53


This expenditure of $4,000 is
entirely independent of any county
road money, nor has it to do with
the IS per cent road money given
to the county by the government.
The money is all spent at home
and is put where it is needed re-
gardless of population. This is
clearly shown by the Rexford-
Yahk trail built through country
which has no settlers along its
route, but affords an outlet for the
upper Yahk basin to the nearest
railroad point and is today used en-
tlrely by the people Of the northern
end OF our county in reaching the
outside world. 1t Is also shown in
the GateWay-Warlan trail on the
west side OF the river, which
scarcely serves half dozen settlers
along its course, but makes an inl-
portant link in a through highway
up and down the river.
Before concluding this article it
would not be complete if we failed
to note the difference between the
regime under the forme; supervisor
and that now prevailing. Then
the administration Of the reserve
was clothed in much secrecy and
the newspaper man with nose
for news" received scant- atten-
ton. Under the present reign the
work is as open as the day, and
is courted in all matters
in which the public is interested.
Upon Our initiative Mr.. Skeels
placed his records before the Herald
man and gave him any further in
formation desired. We want to
him upon the broad
minded plan pursued by him in the
administration of his office and
his praise is given him as freely as
vas his treatment of the writer.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

1t is reported that the Independ-
ence copper property north of Eu-
reka has been sold by Ed. Boyle to
eastern parties and that work on
that big proposition is to be pushed
actively.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

w. P. Sherman, the Kalispell
undertaken with branches at Libby
and and Eureka, visited here last
Saturday.
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
K00TENAI FOREST
SELF-SUSl'AININC
0NE0F THE FEWREVENUE PRODUCERS.
Interesting Statistics as to Road Building
and Policy Of Department.

which covers Mr.. Skeels' admins
tration, will just about average up
with the acreage in the three COM
missioner districts. The total by
items follow:
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
Total $3o31.o1
TROY DISTRICT

TROY DISTRICT
South Fork Yahk trail :. :. $3.50. 3S
Yahk falls bridge ge.............. 900. 27
Troy ferry...................... $4,000
Repairs Troy Sylvan1te raod I21.oo
West Fork Yahk trail ........ Io5.7s
er-Lightning creek trail 3IS.1o
y Brlen creek trail ,........., 34I5 50
Sylvanite telephone line..... 50 AT
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

Total S, 2o4,74o
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

tconttinued tconttin.'e. ! on p, last rage.)
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24
Total $44lo.29
EUR Elk A DISTRICT

Total $44l9.29
EUREKA DISTRICT
Rexford-Y -Yahk trail ...... SI247.o
Gateway Warland trail .... I425 Sc
Five Mile bridge e............. 1881
Repairs E fork Yahk trail I21.oo
Parsnip creek trail ......... 224. .54
The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1911-08-24

Continued on last page. J
Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-12

over Tor trial in the superior couri in $l000 eachs
 Thomas 0. Brown of this city has been elected as literary editor Of the Trinity Ivy, the year book of Trinity college, which is published by the jun for class.
 Jonathan TrumbuII of this city was elected on the board of managers by the Connecticut society of the s. A. R at the annual meeting in Hartford on Wednesday.
 The funeral of Dorothy E. Chester was held on Thursday and the burial was in Yantic cemetery. The child was the two weeks old daughter of Mir and Mrs. John Chester. Funeral Di- rector Gager had charge of the ar rangsments.
 Two of the legislatore who were at New London on Wednesday had a swim at Ocean Beach. The small boys have been swimming for several days there. but very few adults have been in- They reported the water as being great
 { H. c. Proyer, superintendent of the ordinary department of a well known New York life insurance company, who is making a whirlwind campaign of the field, visited this district on We'd nesday, staying over night as the guest of Supt. R. W. Ames. =.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-12
CIVIL SUPERIOR COURT.
Appeal from Board of Relief of Wa
 terford on TridaI.

James F. Comstock of Quaker Hill came into the superior court at New London, Thursday, with an appeal from the board of relief of the town of Waterford. MT. Cohnstock feels that he is unjustly taxed for property at Best View, Quaker Hill.
 Mr. Comstock owns land at Best View, which he leased to out of town people to erect cottages upon. The board of assessors of the town taxed the cottage owners for the cottages and the owners did not pay and then the board of assessors assessed MT. Comstock as owner of the land.
 He appealed to the board of relief and was given no relief. the board upholding the action of the board of assessors as being legal He now ap- peals to the superior court.
 MT. Comstock was among the wit nesses Other witnesses were Arthur H. Gager, who has a place at Best View: Allen C. Richards, whose wife owns a. cottage there; Grace Prentis Ritgocd who has a place at Best View, and Lewis NJ. Crandan and Robert R. Congdon, Jr., who own club house there They testified to values and other matters.
 There are many similar cases pend ing all over the state. so that this, case may be regarded as 9. test case.
 Today the court holds short calendar session at New London