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they could get for potatoes was
40 cents per hundred, and the
society immediatly directed them
to load the cars and they did so
and received upwards of 70 cents
per hundred for same.
He will probably organize the
farmers near Roman and place
them in correspondence with the
national organization before he
leaves.
Later-Mr. Mcclure states that
a meeting will be held at the
Catholic club room tomorrow
night to organize, and that he
looks for a large membership.
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meals during the stay in Helena.
The boys and girls will be un-
der the care and chaperonage of
the Agricultural college and will
be given instruction daily while
at the fair. ...
Rules and regulations may be
obtained of the county superin-
tendents of schools or of Prof.
j. H. Hoist, Bozeman, who have
the contest in charge. Medals
will be given to the county Win
ners, and Governor Stewart will
award medals to the state cham
pions. F. S. Cooley, Director of
Dxtension Service, Bozeman.
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Have Your Seed Tested

The State Grain laboratory,
which was provided for by the
last legislature and which is To-
Gated at the experiment station,
Bozeman, desires to be of the
highest possible service to farm
ers and dealers, and takes occa-
sion to remind all who are inter-
ested tnat purity and termination
tests are made free of charge,
for samples that may be sent in.
The farmer should know
whether the seeds he is buying
or the seeds he is planting will
grow, and also whether or not
they contain noxious weed seeds.
The dealer is anxious to treat
his customers right and wants to
know whether the seeds he is
offering for sale have good vi
tality and also if they contain
noxious weeds.
The state has provided a lab
oratory for making these deter
limitations, without charge to the
individual, and by sending in
small samples of the seeds you
are planting, you can get full in
formation in a very few days.
There is no advantage in TAX
ing a chance on a thing Of this
kind. Better get the information
so you will know exactly what
you can depend on so far as your
seeds are concerned. Send your
samples to the Grain Laboratory,
Experiment Station, Bozeman,
Montana.
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FRANK NJ, MERRILL DROPS
DEAD LAST FRIDAY

Frank M. Merrill, we'll known
to many people all over the res
ervation, dropped dead at a
ranch five miles west of Poison
last Friday afternoon and was
buried at Poison Sunday last.
The deceased was staying with
friends at the time and had gone
to the we'll for a bucket of water
and not feeling we'll, said to a
small boy with him, Il wish you
would pump this pail of water" F"
He sat down and when the boy
had filled the bucket, found Mr..
Merrill dead beside him.
He was about 72 years of age,
an old soldier, an Elk and K. of
P. He came here from Colo
RADIO but was originally from
Lowell, Mass, and was a men,
ber of the Elk lodge in that city.
His lodge wired D. D. Hull for
particulars and it is thought they
authorized his burial at their ex-
penSe.
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prizes' to the outside world
means that the best of that GER
tain commodity is raised in this
county. The price of land in
this section is at such a point
that it is now considered the best
policy to attract settlers to this
country and especially to the
Flathead.
Another thing, every section
of the state is eager and anxious
to be properly represented at the
Panama Pacific exposition, and
the state commission is cooper
ating with the state fair man.
ayers to take the cream Of first
prize material from each booth
to compete with the world in
California in 1915. This alone is
a very important reason why a
splendid showing from this Sec
tion should be made.
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Boys and Girls Contest

Montana boys and girls be-
tween the ages of twelve and
eighteen years are again COM
peting for free trips to Helena
the last week in September to
the state fair. In Bighorn,
Custer, Dawson, Rosebud and
Yellowstone counties the boys
are growing corn, and the boy
who shows the best ten ears of
corn next September will get the
trip to Helena. In other coun-
ties the contest is with potatoes,
and the best twelve potatoes
will entitle the grower to the
same privilege.
The girls are making corset
covers in all the counties, and
the girls in the various counties
showing the best hand made cor
set covers next September will
have the trip.
The county prizes are intended
to cover the cost of railroad
tickets to Helena, and the state
fair will provide lodging and
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WILL ORGANIZE FARMERS
SOCIETY OF EQUITY HERE

D. Mcclure of Ravalli county,
state organizer for the Farmers
Society of Equity, was in Roman
the first of the week talking
with farmers in vicinity of Roman
about joining his organization.
While here Mr.. Mcclure made
the Pioneer a call and explained
the purpose of the Society. 1t is
primarily for the purpose of find
ing markets for the produce of
the farm. Besides, it endeavors
to buy collectivly for cash from
local merchants and thereby save
the farmer the excess charges
which the merchant who does a
credit business must receive over
and above what he could charge
were all his sales on cash basis.
This organization is a national
one, with county organizations
the means by which the national
officers are in touch with what the
farmers all over the country
have to sell and what others in
different localities desire to buy.
1t aims to divert the products
from congested centers so no
loss can be suffered by reason
of the market being glutted
in one place and depreciate the
price. In other words it acts as
a clearing house and commission
depot and has been the means of
bringing the farmers better prices
for what they raise than any
other agency has accomplished
so far.
To illustraee it can be said that
when the farmers at Dixon first
Joined this society the best offer
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WILL SELL At
PUBLIC AUCTION

A message was received from
the Secretary of the Interior this
week, authorizing the sale of the
Indian lands now being adver-
tised at public auction. An ad-
vertisement is now running offer
ing 63 tracts Of non-competent
and dead Indian allotments for
sale on May 81. 1914, and the
advertisement directs that said
lands will be sold by sealed bids.
Under the late instructions all
tracts not sold by the sealed bid
process will be Immediately
offered for sale at public auction,
but must bring the appraised
value in each case before they
will be considered.
Some choice tracts are included
in this sale and many of them
should be purchased, but the ap-
praised value in many cases is
above the true value of the land
and will not be bid in at the
price.
An effort has been made for
the past three years to get the
department to sell these tracts
at public auction for various and
sundry reasons, among which
was the most potent fact that
bidders under the sealed bid pro-
cedure were compelled to put up
a certified check for 10 per cent
of the bid and this money re-
mained in the hands of the Of
ficials for an indefinite time and
the bidders were losing the use
of this money during the period
held by the government. In
many instances the money was
held for a long time and then the
bidders were finally notified that
their bids were rejected or that
the owners refused to sell at the
price bid. 1t has also been urged
that the public auction method
would give more people a chance
to buy the land than the old
method and it has been urged
from this standpoint quite ex-
tensively.
A list of the tracts to be offered
for sale on May 21, can be seen
at the Pioneer office, and pros
pective buyers are invited to call
and examine the list.
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Democratic Club Meeting.

The next regular meeting of
said club will be held at j. N.
Bailey's office on Thursday, April
80, at 8 p. m. A full attendance
is requested as business of i'm
portance will come before the
meeting. A. SUTHERLAND,
Secretary.
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Base Ball Sunday.

There will be a game of base
ball, the opening game of the
season, Sunday next on the Roman
diamond, between the Round
Butte boys and a team from the
Roman Woodmen lodge. Game to
start at 2::3O sharp.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-04-24
WAR WITH MEXICO DECLARED
AND FIGHTING IS IN PROGRESS


President Wilson ordered the
Atlantic fleet to proceed to Mex
ican waters and enforce his de-
mand that Huerta, provisional
president Of Mexico, salute the
flag in reparation for insults
which he deemed required such
drastic action. After so doing
he asked of congress authority
to enforce his demands, and after
a short but sharp debate congress
voted him such authority.
Upon the arrival of the Amer
ican fleet at Vera Cruz on Tues
day, the city was Immediately
siezed, four Americans being
killed and about 20 wounded.
The Mexicans put up a short
fight and fled from the city ex-
cepting few snipers on house
tops who occasionally fired on the
marines and blue jackets in pos
session of the city.
Wednesday more fighting oc-
Cured and new complications
arose. Latest accounts state
that IL Americans have been.
killed and fifty wounded, with
the rebel army under Carranza
and Villa now openly stating
that they propose to take a hand
in the skirmish also. 1t looks at
this time as if the United States
had gotten into the same posi-
tion as the man who interferes
in a fight between a man and
wife-being compelled in the
long run to fight them both.
The fleet at Vera Cruz has
demonstrated that it can shoot
just as effectively now as in the
Spanish-American war and a few
we'll directed shots have accom-
plished much destruction, both
of life and property.
So far there has been no call
for volunteers, although the re-
solutions passed by congress
places the militia of the country
at the disposal of the president.
Numerous towns and cities all
over the country are clamoring
for the privilege of raising volun-
teer companies and from present
indications it would only require
the call by the president to have
all the volunteers in sight which
the government could equip. 1t
is stated that 100000 could be
put into the field in 80 days, but
at this time nothing is known as
to the intentions of the president.
President Wilson deplores the
the condition and says he is very
sorry that war seems inevitable.
Latest dispatches state that
Bryan has received a
grave message from Mexico and
that it was so important that a
hurried call brought the cabinet
together for consultation. This
had reference to the
position taken in the matter by
Carranza and those in a position
to know seem to think that we
have got both Huerta and the
rebels to fight.
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SPECIAL LETTERB BY
KENNETH R0MNEY

ulVVlIu IIUIuVlI
Washington, April 21. Two
bills creating a trade commission
have been introduced in the
house. One of these bills, intro
duced by Stevens of New Hamp-
shire, requires each corporation
having more than SIS, 600, 600 cap
ital to report annually to the COM
mission it's financial condition,
it's relation to other corporations
and it's business practices. In
this bill it is made the duty of
the commission to investigate al
legged violations of the antitrust
laws at the direction of presi-
dent, attorney general or con-
gress. The commission may con-
slider questions of relief in cases
decided by the courts. 1t may
also make Investigations to de-
termine the manner in which the
DEGREES of the court have been
carried out. This is one of the
trust curbing bills that are at
tracing much attention through
out the country. The suggestion
by congressman anxious for an
early adjournment that the anti
trust program of the administra-
tion be limited to a trade COM
mission bill at this session did
not meet with the approval of
President Wilson, who limited
that if congress would run for
awhile on a fast mail schedule
the trust bills could be passed in
time for members to give proper
attention to their campaigns for
reelection. To expedite legis-
lation, the president has sane
toned an omnibus antitrust bill
to define illegal acts by corpor-
ations, prohibit interlocking di-
rectorates and control the issue
of stocks and bonds by public
service companies.
A fair sample of the get-to-
gether tactics of the republicans
and progressives was exhibited
in the house the other day in a
colloquy between Serene E.
Payne, standpat republican of
New York, and Victor Murdock,
leader of the bull moose men,
bers. Said Mr.. Payne: ''The
gentleman from Kansas will not
run for reelection to the house,
because he we'll knows what the
result would be; but he proposes
to run for the senate, not because
he thinks he can be elected, but
because he has an idea that run
ming for senator would be a big
ger funeral for him than running
for the house. +" To which the
red headed Kansan replied:
docs the gentleman from New
York really think could have a
bigger funeral out in Kansas
running for the senate than he
brought to the republican party
through his tariff blll?"
It is believed in Washington
that sentiment for repeal of the
toll exemption clause of the Pan
anna canal act has been greatly
strengthened throughout the
country by the debate in the
house and the hearings now in
progress before the senate COM
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mittee on interoceanic canals.
Testimony before the senate
committee showed that out of a
total Of "a, 765 American vessels
engaged in coastwise trade, only
1863 are of sufficient tonnage to
use the Panama canal. Of the
1868 vessels available, 80 per cent
are either owned or controlled by
the great railroad systems and,
under the law, are prohibited
from passing through the canal.
Thus the repeal of free tolls
means merely the withdrawal of
a subsidy-a special privilege
from about 80 ships belonging to
the shipping trust.
Representative Evans, who at
tracted much favorable attention
by his successful fight on the
floor of the house for the reten-
ton of the government assay
office at Helena, by reason of the
fact that representatives from
other intermountain states lost
their assay offices, gave the house
an attractive word picture of the
Montana prospector. In point
ing out that the small miner is
benefited by the assay offices of
the government more than the
large corporations, he said: "The
man who does not receive any
attention at the hands of the
people of this country is the fe,,-
low who goes out and mines and
prospects 5 the fellow who takes
a burro and a pick and shovel, a
side Of bacon and some beans,
and endures the hardships of a
rigorous climate and a wild coun-
try and the absence of civilization
and who sleeps out on the noun
tain side or under some protect
ing tree or in some improvised
cabin"
Senator Myers has received
letters from publishers in various
sections of the country approving
his bill authorizing railroads to
exchange mileage for newspaper
advertising. The bill would en-
able Montana publishers to secure
railroad mileage good in inter-
state travel in exchange for legit-
innate advertising charged for at
regular rates. Senator Myers
says that he does not expect his
bill to pass at the present session
of congress, but will press it at
the next session.
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BUSINESS REASONS DEMAND
EXHIBIT At 1914 STATE FAIR

To a community that gains it's
growth and prosperity through
the development of it's land and
industrial products, no form of
advertising is better than a COM
prehensive display at the state
fair. Such an exhibit is one of
the many potent factors in COR
rectly portraying to the sixty
thousand annual visitors the pos
sibilities of any one community.
The Flathead reservation stands
supreme in the production and
quality of wheat, barley, rye,
oats and other grains and grasses,
besides vegetables and fruits,
but to successfully market these
products it is necessary to let
even the people in other sections
of this state and other states as
we'll know these possibilities.
The people generally on the Flat
head are particularly anxious
that Missoula's county commits
sioners make a substantial ap-
preparation for a tasty display at
the state fair, Last year "a out
of "a counties were officially rep
resented, and this year the fair
management claim that the per-
centage will be even larger.
A condition of affairs that es-
pecially affects Western Montana
and particularly the Flathead,
and good reason why this county
should be properly represented
at the state fair is that conditions
in Canada are on a rapidly de-
c]ining slump and the tide of inn
migration is southwark. Sta
tis.lcs show Ifs.t ten odt VI every
eleven farmers migrating to Can
ada went to the western part of
that region directly north of
Montana in Alberta and Sas-
katchewan. A prominent Cam
adian in Montana recently con-
fessed that the people in that
country are all talking Montana;
that this year will show a Won
derful increase of former United
States citizens returning, and a
vast decrease in farmers going to
Canada, goodly share of which
will come to this state.
Recent press dispatches show
that settlers are rushing to Mon
tana; that the tide of immigra-
tion starts larger in volume this
time of year than ever before,
and that the whole state is in
proper condition to receive these
people. 1t is a curious fact that
those counties that have been
regularly represented at the state
fair each year are the commun-
tiles getting the lion share of
this immigration.
The soon-to-be opening of the
Panama canal should have a
good effect on Missoula county
and the Flathead in particular;
a gccdly share of prosperous
farmers come from foreign
c]inles. The tendency in the
future will be a western landing
rather than an eastern. Mon
tana, now the best known of any
of the northwestern states will
have first opportunity to influence
these people to stop off at their
port-but they must advertise to
do it. Montana itself is quite
we'll advertised. 1t now becomes
the duty of the individual COM
munities to advertise and secure
their share Of the class of people
they desire. Other sections are
doing it and reaping rewards.
1t behooves Missoula county to
do likewise and not slip back
ward under any conditions. Flat
head residents in particular, are
particularly anxious that the
county commissioners of this
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It is believed in Washington
that sentiment for repeal of the
toll exemption clause of the PAN
anna canal act has been greatly
strengthened throughout the
country by the debate in the
house and the hearings now in
progress before the senate COM
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04
MORALS OF NEW YORK
 SHOWING IMPROVEMENT

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-The com mittee of fourteen, organized in 1910
 to fight commercialized vice in New
 York city, in it's annual report, made
 public today, contends that the city
 is showing steady improvement in it's
 morals and that conditions have changed for the better in many par ticulars. To start with, the police department gets clean bill of health. "The change in the outward moral conditions of the city noted in the last report as occurring since the ROsenthal murder has continued so that in the parlance of the under ! world, the lid' has been on for a year. stated the report.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04
Notice of MarshaI's Sale.

United States of America Third Di-
 vision, Territory of Alaska, ss. 1 Public notice is hereby given, that by virtue of writ of execution, dated January 9th, A. D. 1914, issued out of the District Court, for the Third division, Territory of Alaska, on a judgment rendered in said Cour,, on the 5th day of January, A. D. 1914, in favor of the United States of America, and against James Fish, ad- 1 ministratOr of the estate of Louis Ca m cia, deceased, Angus Chisholm, Frank Gustafson, Max J. Schmidt and Jennie Raymond, have, on this 9th day of January, A. D. 1914, levied upon the following described real es- tate, situated in the town of Valdez, Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
 Lot nine (9) in Block B; lot three (3) in Block two CD; lot four (4) in block twenty-four (24), of the Valdez Townsite, according to the official plat f said toWnsite on file in the office of the recorder for said precinct, and that will, according ly. offer said real estate for sale. at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, for cash, on the third day of March, A. D. 1914, at two o'clock D. m, at the front door of the Court House, Valdez, Alaska.
 Dated at Valdez, Alaska, January 9. 1914.
 F. R. BRENNEMAN, U. s. Marshal, Third Division, Ter
 ritory of Alaska.
 First publication January 10, 1914.
 Last publication February 21. 1914.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04

Watches cleaned $50. Ali work guaranteed. Plant & Co. jewellers. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04

Thompson's Pass Trail open south. closed north. Beaver Dam-Trail drifted. ! Teikhell--Trail drifted. | Tonsina--Trail fair. Copper Center--Trail good. Gulkana-Trail good
 Hogan 's-Trail open.
 PaXson 'sTrail open.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04

Glasses $1.00 and up. c. o. Reinke at Valdez Drug Co. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04
WEATHER RECORD.

Taken at 500 a. m. Snow is given as depth on level, in inches.
 Locations Temp. Snow
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04

Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
 For $6.0O we will give you ticket entitling you to hospital service and care for any eight weeks out of the year from date of your ticket, when incapacitated by injury or sickness. See w. H. Ziegler.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04
Valdez, Feb. 3, 1914.
Oppose U. S. Canal Treaty.

SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal vador, Feb. A mass meeting was held here last night to protest against the proposed treaty between the Un- ited States and Nicaragua in which the United States would obtain the exclusive right to construct any Mic arasuan isthmian canal and also a
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04

Henry Suessdorf is out ooligan fish ing today.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04

Suits pressed for $100 at Silver mans. the tailor. Telephone 198.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-04

William Soule returned this morn ing from a trip down the sound