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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
TAKES ITS PICK OF LANDS
Grants Made by the Federal Govern.
nent Now Being Selected by
Montana.

Helena a quarter
of a million acres have been selected
this season by State Land Agent c.
A. Whipple toward filling the grants
OF land made by the federal govern
ment to the state Of Montana for var-
GUS purposes. This big acreage is ex-
elusive Of 100000 acres involved in ex-
change of forest tracts in western
Montana.
Agents OF the state have gone to
Custer county to make selections west
of IlWalt and Ekalaka This land was
withdrawn in 1910 by the interior de-
partment at the request of Governor
Norris, SO as to give the state the
preference right
1t is the policy of the state land de-
partment to break mp it's holdings SO
that settlers can file alongside of
them. AS the settlers improve their
lands, they enhance the value of the
state lands.
This method also aids the settlers
in that when they file on 100 acres Of
government land, if they wish to in
crease their holdings they can buy
from the state.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
MONEY SHORTAGE F0REsEEN
Failure Of Congressional Appropria,
ton for Bullion Movement
Ties Up Gold

Butte--The director of the mint has
issued orders to the United States as
say Office at Helena, directing that
office to discontinue the purchase Of
gold as result of the failure of con-
gress to provide all appropriation for
the movement of bullion.
The office will receive shipments
from mining men as heretofore, if they
care to send them, but they will be
held at the assay office. The subtreas1
uries at San Francisco and New York
also are similarly affected. They will
not be able to move bullion and I'M
less some way is found to relieve the
situation, say federal officials, eyentu-
ally there will be a big money short
age.
The order affects directly small OPP
orators in Montana, Utah and Idaho,
who heretofore have received top
prices for their metal, but who now, il
they want ready money, will be forced
to dispose of their gold elsewhere.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
STATE WINS OVER
NORTHERN PACIFIC
MINERAL RESERVATIONS HELD
CLOUD ON
TITLES REMOVED.
REVENUE WILL NOT BE MUCH
Question Has Been Discussed at Vari-
GUS Times-Had Been De-
cided and Reversed
Once.

Liyingston.--Attorney General KEEL
ley and his assistant, Judge Poorman
have won their tax case before Judge
A. P. Stark of the district court, who
ruled that mineral reservations are
taxable property. Fred Mjelde, coun-
ty treasurer Of Park county, assessed
mineral reservations which the North
ern Pacific held on lands which had
been sold for non-mining purposes. The
company resisted and will doubtless
carry the case to the supreme court.
Effect Of Ruling.
This decision does not mean that
the state will derive any great amount
OF revenue from collecting taxes on
mineral reservations, but it will have
the effect of abolishing the practise
OF the Northern Pacific and other large
landowners of always attaching the
mineral reservation clauses and thus
placing cloud on the titles OF the
lands they sell.
The Amalgamated Copper company
bought large. tracts of Northern Pa
cltic land in western Montana and
used the same form Of a deed used by
the Northern Pacific when dsposing
OF the land. 1t is said it will now
withdraw the mineral reservations on
these lands and give a. clear title.
Discussed At Various Times,
The question of whether mineral
reservations are taxable property has
been discussed at various times.
Former Attorney General Albert J.
Galen once decided they were, but
afterwards reversed his former de-
clslon. Two years ago Larry Dobell
OF Butte, a member of the Legislature,
introduced a constitutional amend
ment to broaden the scope of the law,
but the matter was never reported
out OF the committee. Early in the
present administration Attorney Gen
eral Kelley ruled that mineral reserya-
tions are property, and therefore tax
able. The county assessors were
notified to tax them, resulting in
test case by the Northern Pacific
against Park county. The Northern
Pacific brought suit to strike the as
sessments from the records. Attor-
ney General Kelley filed a demurrer
and it was argued several days ago
and sustained by Judge Stark.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30

only. Here was puzzle which even his shrewd.
ness could not solve. The coins were silver and
OF full weight, and in that day silver was of
sufficient intrinsic value to make it useless for
anyone to make counterfeits out of the pure
metal Mowers searched for another week, but
found no more coins. He then showed the re-
suit OF his labor to neighbors and to some people
in the city of Chicago. He said nothing about
where he had discovered the treasure. Shortly
afterward, however, a man offered him 500 for
the secret and though Mowers told him that
the place was probably worked out the man Of
fered the money, said he would take the chance
and the offer was accepted. The purchaser
never found anything and gave up the labor in
disgust.
1t was not long before the story of the place
where the coins had been picked up became gen.
orally known and the people focked to the bluff
and to the beach marking the site of the lost
town. They dug searched and prospected with
ali the .ardor OF klondikers, but the sole result
was gold piece OF the value of $3.50, which
boy picked up from the wake of retreating
wave The collection of coin which Henry Now.
ers found is now In the possession of man
who once Chicago dime museum No one
has ever been able to account for the presence
OF the money in the place. The theory that II
was left behind by departing resident of St.
John Is said to be hardly tenable because the
people OF that place were not rich enough to
make them careless OF valuables
There is one metal which the prospector NAV
1nd IN abundance If he will go to St John before
the two old apple trees tumble down the bluff.
The trunks and branches Of both Of them are
full Of lead The trees stood just at the end
OF the old Sixth infantry rifle butt For three
years before the building of the present post
the troops that first came to Fort Sheridan
pumped lead at target practice into the butt and
incidentally into the apple trees at the side
Despite the attacks Of the weather and this
leaden onslaught the two trees bore burden Of
FRUIT for years as sound and as sweet as that
which bent their branches at the time when the
town OF st. John was something moro suhstan
tial than memory.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
ORE BODY MAY BE TIED UP
PiIot-Butte Company Embarrassed by
Action Brought at Butte by the
Anaconda Company.

Butte.--The Anaconda Copper Min,
ing company has instituted proceed
ings for a temporary injunction re-
straining the Pilot-Butte from ex-
tracing ore from what the Anaconda
company alleges to be it's Emily vein,
apexing in ground adjacent to the
Pilot-Butte's claim and owned by the
Anaconda company.
The action is begun to quiet title
to claims bounding the Pilot-Butte
which are controlled by the Anaconda
company, and if the petition is grant
ed, the principal ore body to date of
the Pilot-Butte company will be tied
up. The Pilot-Butte is free to oper-
ate it's other veins.
Among the stockholders of the pi-
lot-Butte company are Twin City and
Duluth men. T. Murray of st. Paul
is director of the company.
Counsel for the Anaconda company
foresee troublesome litigation ahead
unless title to claims adjoining the
Pilot-Butte is quieted, hence the in
stitution of the suit
The Pilot-Butte company only re-
Gently entered the shipping class, fol-
lowing the sinking of shaft to
depth of 1000 feet, when copper ore
of a splendid grade was found.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
Mother and Her Babe Killed.

Butte.-Grieving over the loss of her
Syearold baby, who accidentally
drank a solution of bichloride of mer-
curry and died in commissions, Mrs.
Grace Becker, heartbroken and desert
ed by her husband and left alone,
swallowed draught of the same poi
by, happening to peer into the open
window, saw woman writing in con-
yulsions on the floor and summoned
the police. Mrs. Becker died soon
after reaching the emergency hospi-
tai, her only reply to all questions
being that she wanted to die
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30

pelore II could be resumed the barn, in the shane
~ ols1olntea 1o1sts and broken planks was be-
ing tossed about by the waves.
1t was about this time that the neon1o ~ Ct
John received a visitor who was much more
un"elcome than the storm. This visitor was
lawyer armed with lot of formidable Looking
papers. He went to the tavern and asked that
e n elders OF the village be sent for They came
me lawyer told them that their title to the land
winch they occupied was extremely faulty and
'hat they must either pay again for the ground
ON winch their homes stood or get out Tho
villagers made up their minds to fight the mat
Ter out, but preliminary court proceedings showed
thein tnat the lawyer had fully as good a case
as ne claimed. They became disheartened and
when another terrific storm arose and the h,acl,
sm'ths shop and George Shepards house went
INTO the lake they lost all courage They told
the lawyer that the lake seemed to have a het-
ter claim to the land than either they or he
naa' ana that 1t apparently was bent on enforc-
ing ute rights One by one the people of St.
John moved away, leaving their dwelling and
stores to the will Of the wind and waves, Set
Elements sprang up to the south and the west
OF the deserted village, and the people, during
Inc nelght OF winter storms. used to 20 to place
near the bluff and watch for some deserted dwell
ing standing perilously near the edge of the
embankment to fall with one final crash onto
the water-swept sand below
Henry Mowers, an old time hunter was a vet.
eran OF the residents near the site of the lost
vLlaee' MOI long after the disappearance In the
lake OF the last building of the Village of St.
Jonn' Mowers took spade and walked IN the
lake shore until he came to the point where
large part of the site of St. John had disan-
peared beneath the waves. Mowers trip was
taken up at sunrise, time when he was not
lKely to be interrupted in his work. He began
series OF mysterious diggings just at the base Of
.ne mud cliff. He worked for two hours and
!nen quit. He returned to his task every morn.
ing Tor week. making several new excavations
loot or two in depth each time. One morning
tne SPADE struck something hard, and In a min.
ute mowers had unearthed ingot Of pure COP
per weighing eighteen pounds. This was worth
having, but 1t was not what Mowers was after
re kept on digging for month, and at the end
VI .nat time had secured gold and silver French
anu a spanish pieces In value to the amount OF
e14' IN addition he found some United States
copper cents and halfcents of an early date and
one bronze Roman coin Of the period of Nero.
mowers Kept at his work for weeks, but after
uheartnlng the Roman piece he found nothing
lor long time. He about to giveup the
WORK Tor good He shouldered his spade and
s.arled homeward On the sand, glistening in
the sun at the waters edge, just as he turned
~ 30 1or supposedly the EAST time, he found two
on'ted States silver dollars minted on one sida
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
Attorney Makes Unusua, Defense.

Butte.-SWan T. Hogevoll former
prominent attorney and we'll known
in legal circles of the state, now of
San Francisco, met an application on
the part of Grace R. Hogevoll for ali
mony pending her divorce action by
claiming that she was never legally
married to him. In an affidavit he
recited that his wife was not legally
divorced from her third husband, Her
man A. l.aumaster Of Seattle, when
she married him. He maintained that
the divorce which the wife secured
in Missoula was illegel.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
To Eliminate.

Bozeman.-Bozeman merchants have
agreed to make choice between the
two telephone companies now serving
the public The matter is to be left
to vote of those who are now using
both phones, and the agreement is
that they will hereafter patronize only
that company which received a ma.
jority of votes in ballot now being
conducted through committee ap-
pointed by the Retail Merchants ASSOC
citation.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
Boy Escapes Prosecution.

Miles City.-Russell Bonygone, who
held up Henry NJ. Hanson in the box
office of the Empress theatre recently,
has been released by order of the dis
trict court and has accompanied his
father to their home in New Jersey.
Both Messrs. Rehtield and Hanson,
proprietors of the theatre, signed doc
uments that they did not want the boy
prosecuted.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
Kills Self at Linotvpe.

But,e.-Erastus l.. Crowl, an old
time typo, we'll known from Chicago
to Montana, Respondent at a run of
bad luck, sat before his linotype in
the Miner office here, pulled a revol-
yer from his pocket and fired bullet
into his brain, dying instantly Crowl
had begged the weapon with one car
fridge from a policeman for "protec-
ton from burglars.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
MzzRE WHY'S HAsH MzEQ MJMHx5XZ.

saw year by year that the
face of the bluff was being
gradually worn away, but
the erosion was so slow that
they gave little heed. One
night in the winter of 1862
a storm whipped up out of
the northeast. 1t was forty
eight hours before 1t had
fully spent its force. Be-
fore its assaults, the bluff
gave way, tons upon tons of
the hard clay breaking off in
great pieces and falling to
the beach. When the wind
ceased blowing the barn of
the dwelling nearest to the
lake stood at the edge of the
embankment. The villagers
started to move the structure
inland, but another storm,
coming up suddenly, forced
them to stop the work, and
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
Offer Church Attendance Inducements

Butte.--Butte clergymen are trying
advertising as a means OF attracting
people to their churches, thu e-column
advertisements appearing in The local
newspapers Saturday inviting all to
attend services Sunday. Those who
do not care to walk to church are re.
quested to telephone any pastor they
desire and an automobile will be sent
free of charge. Sunday was designat-
ed by the ministers as Union Pro-
testant Rally Day" The advertise
ment further stated that babins can be
checked at the churches.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
Two New Game Preserves.

INSTRUMENTATION has been taken
by the commercial club of this city
looking to the establishment of two
game preserves in central Montana,
the first in the Big Snowy mountains,
where big game is plentiful, and the
other in the South Moccasin noun
tains, where feathered game prevails
in large numbers.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
INTELLIGENT DOG.

MY wife must be doing the cooking today"
"Why?"
On those days my dog always comes to the
once An right Towser, you can go to lunch
with me-"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
A PARADOX.

There is one thing queer about an accusing
charge
What Is that"
faces It "
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30
1AsT RgzM11g@5 WI7T az za5w Muzy

DLOW the bluffs which
skirt the shore OF Fort
Sheridan military reser.
walton the waves of Lake
Michigan wash over the
site Of a lost town.
When the winds Of a few
more storms shall have
blown to the beach two
apple trees which have
but a frail footing at the
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-30

embankment's edge the last reminders Of
a once thriving and populous place will
have been swept away.
Almost seventy years ago the hamlet
OF st. John was founded by man named
Hetlinger and few of his followers.
The site chosen was a commanding one
on the bluff overlooking the lake and
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-19
Validity of Byrd Law

In an opinion handed down a few days ago
by Judge b. T. Crump, OF the Chancery court
Of the city of Richmond, the validity OF the
Byrd primary statute is upheld and the law
is construed making 1t imperative that any
party nominating candidates by the primary
method in this State shall nominate under the
provisions and safeguards OF the Byrd primary
election law. The adoption of the primary
method OF nominating is optional with fhe
parties. but when any party once decides to re-
sort to the primary plan the election Is sub
ject to all the requirements, regulations and
penalties provided in the act itself. Friends
Of the primary nominating plan have abused
the law even more than opponents of that
method have done, but the court has decided
that the law IL stands Is adequate and can
not be ignored overriden by party COM
mittee
The question came up on an application for
injunction to restrain the Richmond city De-
mocratic committee from including in the issues
to be voted upon a referendum on the ques-
ton of annexing certain suburbs. The court
granted the injunction prayed for. holding that
such q question had no proper place in A party
primary for the nomination Of candidates. 1t
s not denied. however. that the entire electorate
ton question to referendum vote, but in that
event 1t must submit tt to the whole electorate.
not merely to the voters of party.
We do not regard the decision impor-
tant of the other newspapers appear
to regard 1t. In fact, have all along recog-
that 1t law. In our judgment II was wise
the part of the legislature when 1t made
resort to the primary optional as a method of
nominating. The principal provision of the law
is that IL a primary Is held 1t must be under
the safeguards prescribed and under conditions
and limitations recited therein. In word, the
Byrd primary law is valid; the only questino con-
Eeerning 1t Is as to It's sufciency to meet the
wishes of those who desired to perfect the
primary" whatever that phrase may mean
Danve Register
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-19
By No Means Dismayed

Let us assure The Richmond virgnian, whose
sympathetic comment upon our recent refer
ence to a woman suffrage victory in Illinois
is reproduced elsewhere today that The News
is far from being cast down dsmayed when
contemplating that result We are still una
fraid. utterly unmoved in hostility to woman
suffrage and in fear whatever as TO the
general outcome of that movement. While fully
conscious of the importance of the Illinois
fra chising law. and ready in all candor to
recognize the fact that Its enactment will en-
courage the leaders of the suffrage IN
every State of the Union, yet do not be-
lieve that the future for the "antls is thereby
rendered the less hopeful Indeed, careful coh-
sderation of the incident induces the thought
that the Illinois verdict may indirectly be en-
ployed to the actual service of those who do not
think It in accord with sound public policy
and the highest interests of society to confer
the right of ballot upon American women. For
while the latest triumph for that movement will
operate to hearten its forces. it should and
doubtless will serve as danger signal to its
lenemes-awake them to sense of duty: to
the need for activity, cooperation. organization
and work and impel them to more aggressive
and effective policy than they have yet pur
sued.
We have for some time been of the opinion
that In the West people of the suffrage
lightly-to be quiescent while the other side has
been vigilant and active. that they have been
disposed to permit by their Indifference
result to be accomplished which by real fight
would have been defeated.
Michgan's experience affords In point
At the election last November the vote on
For reason the election had to be held
few months later upon the same issue, when
real woman-suffrage campaign was waged-
one which was not confused with other issues
and under such conditions woman's suffrage was
defeated by decisive, well-nigh overwhelm-
ing majority Michigan voters had only to
think seriously upon the question and hear
arguments pro and con, to come to the right
conclusion. And the anti-suffraEe leaders in
Michigan had emily to become really alarmed
to the fate of their cause, to conduct a cam
paign big in It's results.
Thus we undertake to assert that If the anti
suffrage leaders throughout the country would
only once become seriously apprehensiye as to
this question--and count the costs of the peril
which their apathy begets the Michigan suffrage
defeat here mentioned. would be repeated
wherever the standards of votes for women"
are raised And should 1t happen that Illinois
unexpected grant of the franchise to her women
the other day will afford a genuine scare to
the opponents of the very unhappy and de-
moraliZing doctrine. why The Nirginiar can
easily see that The News will have much more
reason TO rejoice than to sorrow at the action
of that misguided and wayward Commonwealth
-Lynchburg News
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-19
With the State Press
The South Is Back Again.

Colonel George Harvey. in his address before
the literary societies at the university lasI
night notnted out a valuable characteristic of
this country when he said that while centuries
elapsed before Scotland could recover her Old
time dominance in Great Britain the south had
recovered her place of influence In national
affairs in less than half century.
This is evidence Of celebrity OF rehaoiiiment
OF which we may all be proud. Along with II
goes another fact two worth mentioning.
The rabid spirit of partisanship which for a
long time demanded the frantic waving of the
bloody shirt has so far faded away and been
replaced by the feeling Of nationalism that the
South resumed control of national affairs with
ont any display of hysteria! The old bitter days
seem to have passed far out OF sight. Better
STILL the nation recognizes as the colonel said
that the return OF the south 10 its ola place
means a revivifcation of things that have need
ed emphasis Charlottesvlle Progress.