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Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-03-19
REGISTRATION SHOWS
SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH
OVER ONE HUNDRED NEW NAMES
ADDED TO BOOKS DURING
THE PAST WEEK,

Over one huld"ed Ioiefs have mad
their names placed on the registra-
tiOn books in the office of Clerk and
Recorder Cunningham during the past
week. The total is, at the time Of
going to press with this paper, 2,715
for the county. 1t is believed that is
approximately 20 per cent of the voters
in the county, assuming that the In.
crease will just about Offset the loss
through the creation of Musselshell
county. All localities are we'll rep
resented in this number. A larger per-
centage of the voters are registered
from the three Lewistown precincts
than from any others chiefly by rea.
son of the fact that the office is here
and also for the reason that interest
in the forthcoming city election has
stimulated registration.
There are today 725 voters from
Lewistown registered. Many of these
will not be eligible to vote at the city
election, but the number who are
eligible will probably exceed six hun
dred. 1t is unlikely that there will
be anything like this number of votes
cast, owing to the absence of any
serious contests, except in the Second
ward, where the socialists expect to-
make a good showing. Interest In
the franchise questions may have a
bearing In getting out the vote.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-03-19
LOCAL COMMERCIAL
CLUB TAKES THE LEAD
HUNDRED DOLLARS is APPRO-
PRlATED TOWARD EXPENSES
OF GOVERNORS SPECIAL.

When the Northwestern Governors
special train idea was worked out last
winter, the plan contemplated each
county in Montana paying pro rata
share of the expenses. 1t was then
looked upon, and indeed proved to
be, a stellar advertising stunt Mon
tana probably reaped larger benefits
than any of the other states partici-
pating by reason Of the fact Mon
tana's governor was everywhere recog-
nized as the star orator and booster
of the bunch. The impression created
by Governor Norris throughout the
states and cities which the special
train visited was of a character to
bring his great state into favorable
notice.
Fergus was one of the counties in
the state which gladly put up its
share of the expenses of the trip,
$50. Many other counties followed
suit, but there are a number who
failed to do so. The result was that
there is still unpaid about one thou
sand dollars. President Lewis Pen
well, OF the Northwest Development
League, and Ralph w. Reynolds, Of
this city, Montana's, member on the
executive board of that organization,
personally guaranteed all expenses
and are left holding the sack by rea-
son OF the failure of these counties
to come through with their share.
This subject having been brought to
the attention of the local Commercial
club at a meeting of the board of di-
rectors Friday afternoon, resolution
was passed appropriating one hundred
dollars for the purpose of assisting in
raising the sum delinquent. Secretary
Mathews was instructed to communi-
cate with other commercial club Sec
retaries In the state with a view to
the remainder OF the thousand
dollars. In this. as in all other mat
ters pertaining to the development Of
Montana, the Lewistown Commercial
club has shown its entire willingness
to take the lead.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-03-19
SOCIALISTS AND NON-PARTiSANs
WILL CONTEST FOR hONORs
AT CITY ELECTION.
INTEREST SECONDHAND
Both Sides Working Hard to Garry
OFF AIdermanic Plum in That Pre-
cinct-Traywick, Brice and Sutter
Renominated to Succeed Them
selves AS Members of City Council.

There will be but two tickets in the
field this spring to contest for honors
at the city election, the citizens or
non-partisan, and the socialists. The
name OF Alderman Traywick, who was
renominated in the Second ward, will
probably appear on the ballot as dem.
Ocratic since he was first nominated
by that party and inorsed by the re-
publican primary, which amounts, in
effect, to his nomination as a citi-
zens' candidate.
The Second ward primary was held
Thursday evening. J. w. Hughes was
chairman and G. w. Buntin, secretary
Marvin Traywick was nominated by
acclamation TO succeed himself as IL
member of the board Of aldermen
The republican primary was held in
the same ward Friday night and Tray
wick was indorsed with no serious
opposition so far as numbers were
concerned
Socialist Ticket.
The socialist primaries were held
Thursday evening in the three wards
and candidates were named as fol
lows: First ward, James Hyatt; Sec
ond ward, Alex Sharp; Third ward, w.
@. Cooper.
Sutter and Brice Named.
Citizens primaries were held last
night in the First and Third wards
and Doctor S. E. Brice in the First
and Edward Sutter in the Third were
renominated. Neither of them cared
for the job, but their services have
been such as to meet with the
heartiest approval of practically unani-
nous constituencies and they have
been asked to serve again.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-03-19
BIG APARTMENT HOUSE
PLANNED BY LOCAL MEN
A THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLAR
STRUCTURE TO BE ERECTED
DURING PRESENT YEAR.

A stock company has just been
formed in this city for the purpose
OF erecting. during the present year,
one of the finest apartment houses
in Montana. Those holding stock in
the corporation are G. M. Stone, w.
J. Johnson, B. e. Stack, A. A. Staple
ton, Fred Robinson, Tom l.. Pittman
and G. r. Marsh.
The company has acquired the
George Anderson property, ON the cor
ner of Broadway and Sixth avenue.
and the structure which they plan will
cover one entire lot, 5Ox90 feet in
size, be three stories high and cost
not less than $4,000. 1t will be moo
ern In every particular and contain
from twelve to fifteen Groom apart
ments. Considerable stress will be
laid not only upon making the build
ing entirely fire-proof. but also as
slightly from an architectural view
point as possible.
The plans for the new building will
be out within the next two or three
weeks and a contract let as early as
1t will be possible to begin work. It
IL pTOpO6cu u nave Tie UullUluS T0dUy
for occupancy this fall.
It would appear that a modern apart
ment house should be an excellently
paying investment in Lewistown. It
is rather remarkable that there Is not
something of the sort in a
city of nearly five thousand people.
The city is fortunate, however, that
its first building of that character
shall be Of the substantial and slightly
nature planned. It will certainly be
q decided acquisition to the list Of
fine buildings in Lewistown.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-03-19
Viii Pass Bill.

Washington, March 13.-The house
today made Borah's three-year home
stead bill its unfinished business, after
Wednesday next. It is believed the
house will pass the bill and that the
president will approve 1t regardless
OF opposition, which has been mani
tested against 1t by the interior de.
partUent.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-03-19
Locates In White Sulphur Springs.

c. A. Linn. the well-known youne
attorney. who has been in partnership
with John A. Coleman for more than
a year past, left this morning for
White Sulphur Springs. where he will
form law partnership with County
Attorney Billy Ford. Mr.. Linn made
many friends during his stay here. all
Of whom wish him unbounded success
In his new location az he is q splen-
did fellow and q good attorney.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-03-19
PARTY OF SURVEYORS, BELIEVED
TO BE A GREAT NORTHERN
OUTFIT, IN THAT FIELD.
WOULD Be DIRECT ROUTE
Line Out Of Lewistown Along Boyd
Creek, Tunnel Under Judith Noun.
tains and Course Down Fords and
Blood Creek to MusselshelI, Appear
to Be Entirely Feasible.

Ranchers residing on Boyd creek,
east OF LewistOwn, who were in the
city last Saturday, informed the Dem.
ocrat that party of eight or nine
men, presumably railroad surveyors,
have been busy out in that section
for several days running line. They
ran across the Herman Sell and old
Kelly ranches and, at last accounts,
were making rapid headway in the
direction of the Gilt Edge divide in
the Judith mountains. 1t is generally
believed this party of surveyors are
in the employ Of the Great Northern.
= Route Is Feasible.
Local surveyors and engineers, who
are acquainted with that section Of
the county in which this party of sur
veyors is now working, state that such
route would be entirely feasible from
an engineering standpoint and some
Of them have wondered that it has not
been given serious consideration be-
fore this time. A good grade can be
secured out of Lewistown up Boyd
creek to the foothills of the Judiths.
A mile tunnel would put the road over
the divide and carry 1t about one mile
south and east Of Gilt Edge. Fords
creek offers another gradual grade for
twenty miles. Arriving at point
where Fords creek turns southeast, the
line could be taken across to Blood
creek, which would afford another
easy grade to the Musselshell. After
crossing the creek, there would be a
direct line to the line of the Great
Northern as surveyed at the present
time westward through Dawson
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-03-19
w. e. Harmon a Candid ate,

w. e. Harmon, state superintendent
of schools, was in the city on official
business yesterday. Mr.. Harmon will
again be a candidate for the republl-
can nomination before the republican
convention. His chief opponent in the
convention viii doubtless be r. G.
Young. formerly superintendent Of
schools in Butte.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1912-03-19
Open Up Fine Country.

1t would appear that there are many
reasons why such a route should ap-
peal to the Great Northern If it is
indeed feasible from an engineering
viewpoint. It would be shorter route
by probably twenty miles than the
proposed line up Spring creek and
down Mcdonald. 1t would also obviate
the necessity of paralleling the Mil
waukee for more than fifty miles east
of Lewistown. Moreover, such line
would open up new country of great
extent and vast agricultural possi-
bility. Hundreds Of thousands of acres
of land now devoted almost entirely
to range purposes, but every bit as
fertile as any lands to be found in the
Judith Basin, lies between Gilt Edge
and the Musselshell and would be-
come tributary to the new line.
Better for Lewistown.
Naturally the people Of LewistOwn
would prefer to see such line built
by the Great Northern rather than to
have that road parallel the Milwau-
KEGS line eastward. The construction
of a railroad over that route would
mean that this city will have such
railroad connections as no other city
in the state can ever hope to have.
The old Montana, now the Milwaukee,
ties all OF the southwestern part OF
the Basin to us; the Great Northern
line, now in course of construction,
opens up for Lewistown trade the fer
tile valleys and big benches west of
us; the Lewistown-Hilger line, which
is to be extended for an additional
twenty miles this year, gives us sure
hold on the big north country; the
Milwaukee line to Great Falls brings
to our doors the wonderful country
northwest and west; the Milwaukee
eastward will add an immense terri
tory between here and for miles be-
yond the Musselshell to Lewistown's
natural trade zone; and If the Great
Northern should decide to send it's
line eastward by the route outlined at
the beginning of this article, another
great area. already we'll settled and
capable of extensive development,
would be added.
Work Will Soon Start.
:. Missoulian: J. D. McVicar, who has
been in charge of the preliminary
work which the Milwaukee has been
doing between Great Falls and Lew
istown, passed through the city yes
terday on No. II on his way to Seattle,
where he will visit with his family
for a few days before returning to
Great Falls, where his headquarters is
located.
In regard to the construction of the
line between Lewistown and Great
Falls, Mr.. McVicar said that the pre-
liminary work on this line was prac-
.ica|ly completed and that the actual
would probably be start.
ed within a short time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19

Fire losses in the United States and
Canada for the eight months ending
Aug. 81 were $163,750,65O, against
$167, 655,55O in 1911 and $1456433OO
in 1910 The difference of about
$4,ooo,ooO tstween this years record
and last years should be encouraging
to those who have labored for a bet
ter understanding by the public of
means of preventing losses.
Our total, however, for any recent
period is still far too great, and there
is need of continuing the educational
campaign against methods of building
that result in disastrous fires, and
against shpshod means of-fghting fire.
Eventually we must come to such per-
manence of building as obtains in
European countries, and he who builds
now or in the future will build wisely
if he makes his plans for permanence
rather than cheapness of construction.
We must have also laws that place
more justly responsibility for fires.
The day of himsy Drilding is past for
this country. Insurance rates are a
tax on the community and the nation
for which they are made. They should
be lowered greatly for the United
States and Canada through a record
of smaller losses Record Herald
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19
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MET IN MILWAUKEE.
Building Associations of State Hold
Sessions Monday and Tuesday.

The fourteenth meeting of the Loan
and Building Association League of
Wisconsin was held in the Auditorium
at Milwaukee on Monday and Tuesday
Of this week
A large number of secretaries repre-
senting building and loan associations
in the different parts of the state
were present and al were very enthu-
siastic in the good work that building
land loan associations are doing in
furnishing the means whereby the
working man may obtain home and
pay for the same in weekly or monthly
payments, which in the total amounts
to about the same as would be paid in
rent for a house.
Several papers were read treating
of subjects connected with the man
agement Of building and loan associa-
tions.
The United States League of Local
Building and Loan Associations will
be held in Milwaukee in July 1913. It
is thought that the holding Of this
meeting will be an incentive for good
work being done by the secretaries Of
the building and loan associations in
the state during the coming year.
All secretaries went home feeling
that Wisconsin would make a good
showing at said meeting next year.
John J. Maher of Milwaukee, the
first president of the state league, was
elected president for the coming year.
The list of officers for the coming
year is as follows:
President-John J. Maher, Milwau-
kee.
Vice President-F. J. Barber, Osh-
kosh.
secretary-John H. Corcoran, Keno
sha.
Treasurer-Ignatz A. Przybyla, Mil
waukee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19

or true value IS .o6o, and the average
amount Of capital invested in each Of
the cities and manufacturing establish
ments is s5,51s,l25 IN other words,
this table shows that while the tax
rate upon the true value is 0159 in
the first eight cities and .0l60 in the
remaining eight cities, nevertheless
three times as much capital is invest
ed IN the first eight cities, although
the average tax rate in each Of the
classes is practically the same.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19

Through the failure of the legisla-
ture to make an appropriation the
forestry reserve was obliged to surren-
der options ON valuable mineral lands
which were Immediately gobbled up
by a waiting syndicate. As a part OF
these lands must be acquired at any
cost If the present plans for reserve
are to be carried out the people will
pay dearly for the penny wise and
pound foolish policy shown in the
failure to take up these options. Ii
it has been decided that the state must
have forest reserve the lands should
be acquired without paying any profits
to land spectators.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19

The police do not seem to be great
IL exercised over the indignant cri-
ticism Of their treatment Of the sail
ors from the naval training school
With them it is a case of handsome
ia as handsome does whether man
ID in uniform or out of it. Neither
the sailors nor any other visitors to
the city win have any reason to COM
plain of the activities Of the police SO
long as there are no complaints made
against them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19

serves. This fact 10 just developed by
ths purchase Of large tracts of mineral
lands IN Iron and Villas counties by
Frederick Ives Carpenter of Chicago.
Options upon all of this land We're held
by the state, but when the appropria-
ton by the last session of the legisla-
tufe would not permit of the purchase
of these lands they were seized by a
syndicate of men interested in their
purchase because of their iron ore de-
posts. Except by a few officials it
was not known that many of the lands
upon which the state had an option con
tanned deposits within a part of the
Gogebie range.
At the last session Of the legisla.
ture the senate passed a bill appro-
priating 100000 annually for twenty
Years to be used in the purchase of
land for the development of the forest
reserve area. At that time the state
had options upon nearly all of the lands
within the forestry area.
This bill the assembly amended so as
to provide for $4,000 a year for five
years. State Forester Griffith appeared
before the legislative committee and
explained that the state had options on
these lands, that they were rich in min
eral deposits, but aside from the fact
they were desirable because they adj
joined or were interviewed with forest
reserve lands and that their acquisition
was almost imperative for the protec-
tion of the forest lands already ac-
quired. The purpose Of the forestry
commission was to purchase about a
naif million acres in Iron and Villas
counties which would have made a fine
solid forestry tract and one of the
greatest value from its. mineral depos-
its alone
However, the state was obliged to re-
linquish many OF it's options and now
agents and experts of iron companies
have gene over these lands and picked
out those of value, paying in many in
stances from $12 to 500 an acre for the
mineral rights alone. The iron found
in these lands is a continuation of the
famous Gogebic deposits and the new
owners probably will realize millions
from their investment. In like manner
the state has probably acquired wealth
in the millions which it has been able
to purchase. In all the state has OBJ
tanned in these counties this year about
10000 acres, instead of the half million
acres it desired to obtain.
Eventually it is expected the state
will purchase many of these lands from
the iron companies as state control
over them will be necessary to prevent
forest fires in the state holdings. w lille
in private hands these lands will be
more or less in the nature of danger
spots.
The state now has 100000 acres in
forest reserves, principally in the three
counties mentioned.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19

The attention of parents and guar
dians is called to the fact that the
compulsory school attendance law of
the state of Wisconsin is still in force
In Kenosha and that vacation per-
nit to work will not be accepted as a
valid excuse for the non attendance
at school of any child. There has
not been time as yet for thorough
checking up of the attendance in the
schools with the school census, but the
figures seem to indicate that there are
many children in the city who have
not yet been registered in the schools
This work win be taken up at once by
the truant officer and in order that
there may be no misunderstanding par
ents and guardians should be familiar
with the law on the subject which
reads as follows: Section 439a.
Any person having under his con
troll any child between the ages Of
fourteen and sixteen years not regu-
larly and lawfully employed in any
useful employment OF. service at home
pr elsewhere, as provided by chapter
459 of the laws of 1908, shall cause
such child to be enrolled in and to at
tend some pubhc or private school
regularly (regularly means every day
when school is in session. Any per-
son who shall violate the provisions
Of this section shall upon conviction
thereof be punished BY a fine Of not
less than five dollars nor more than
nifty dollars, %ogether with costs Of
prosecution or by imprisonment in the
county jail not exceeding three
months On by both such fne and i'm
prisonment in the discretion Of the
COURT for each ofense.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19
WISCONSIN, IS LOYAL
Woodmen of This State
Promise to Stick With
Head Camp.
INSURGENT MEETING is SMALL

Although the Modern Woodmen So
Nciety has 784 Camps with 59,381 mem
bers in Wisconsin, not over $50 mem
bers attended the convention Of the
dissenters at La Crosse in August. Of
these $50 only 68 were delegates, and of
| these delegates sixteen were from La
| Crosse. Even some of the delegates were
not partisans of the faction which has
taken up the rate question as means
of securing control of the Society. Some
were present under instructions from
their Camps to observe the proceedings
and report on the propositions of the
opponents of the new rates.
John L. Sundean, of Minneapolis, a
| former deputy, discharged from the
service, was present to object to the
new rates, principally on the ground
| that in making them no account had
been taken Of the profit on lapsations.
This objection is easily answered.
The new rates provide for no profit on
! lapsation. Under all plans the promised
| payments balance the promised bere-
fits. Under the level premium plan, the
member makes some payments in adj
vance-pays part of the time an
amount in excess of the actual cost of
carrying his insurance. This excess goes
into a reserve, is improved at per cent
compound interest, and is used to hold
his premium level in the later years
when the cost of carrying his insurance
exceeds his annual contributions. IF
he withdraws in the earlier years, his
| excess payments are returned to him in
the form of paid-up or extended in
surance. So there is no profit on the
| lapsation.
The convention adopted a resolution
calling on Gov. McGovern to remove
State Insurance Commissioner Ekern on
the ground that his stand for adequate
rates is hostile to the principles of fra
ternalism. This is not true unless
fraternalism means breaking promises
to the member, or persuading him to
take insurance Whie b in the end will be
worth little or noshing. True flaterna-
ism means redeeming promises in full,
paying dollar for dollar It cannot be
paid unless it is collected. A fraternal
insurance society is cooperative IN
stitution that sells at cost. It cannot
sell below cost without going into
bankruptcy. Mr.. Ekern S offense ap-
pears to have consisted in making this
plain.