The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-12-10
WIN SUIT AGAINST
ACCIDENT BOARD
MONTANA COUNTIES TO COME
WITHIN BENEFITS OF COM
PENSATION LAW.
CHANCELLOR NEEDS SUPPORT
Dr.. Elliot Has Difficult Problems to
Solve-State Superintendent Issues
Appeal to Teachers and Peo-
pie for Cooperation.

| liCiChas
Montana counties have the right
to come within the benefits of the
Workmen's compensation act, declared
Judge r. Lee Word in the district
court in handing dow an opinion direc-
ting the state Industrial accident board
to allow Lewis and Clark county to
come under compensation plan No. 8.
The decision handed down by the
district court jurist is the result of
the action taken recently by the board
of county commissioners. The county
board first requested the county be per.
mitted to come within the provisions
of the law. This application was deni-
ed by the industrial accident board af-
! ter it had been given an opinion by
| the attorney generals office. The coun-
| ty then appealed to the district court.
In his opinion Judge Word calls
attention to the fact that prior to
! the passage of the compensation act
county employees who had been in
| jured had no recourse at law against
their employer and he holds that these
| laborers above all others should now
| be entitled to the benefits of the act.
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Should Support Elliot.
Apropos of the coming to the state
of the newly elected chancellor of the
University of Montana, DR.. Edward G..
Elliott, head of the department of
education of the University of Wis
consin, and one of the best known edu-
Gators in the country, State Superin-
tendent H. A. Davee has issued an ap-
peal to teachers and to people gener-
ally to cooperate with him and to
help solve the problems which have
crippled the efficiency of the state edu-
cational institutions in the past.
DR.. Elliott has already been given
the unanimous endorsement of the
Montana State Teachers association
in resolutions at the Great Falls con-
yention. He comes to Montana new
man, although not a stranger to the
west, and has problems to grapple
with that have been thorn in the
flesh of the state board of education
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SODulIiOIldf FdioOI w ooNCs
That the state board of pardons |
does not consider the conditional par |
don law the joke" that some seek |
ing release of prisoners from the peni- |
Tertiary consider it, was shown, when
a prisoner who came back to Montana !
in violation of his conditional pardon,
was put behind the bars for the rest
of his natural life.
Some four years ago, according to
Warden Frank Conley, Joseph Weir
was convicted of a charge of criminal
assault at Great Falls and a year later
was released under the conditional
pardon statute, the conditions being
that he should never return to Mon
tana or even the United States. He
was in England for three years and
came right back to this state, locating
in Great Falls from which city he
wrote Warden Conley for a position
in the prison band. Mr.. Conley as
sured him of the position by sending
an officer after him, and he is now
in Deer Lodge for the rest of his life.
1.-THE state board of pardons has
been watching for these violations for
some time and henceforth when any
prisoner violates the condition of his
release he is liable to suffer thereby"
said Mr.. Conley.
Sees Surplus of Apples.
With the new orchards that will
come into bearing next year, Mon
ana will have big surplus of apples
% ship out of the state instead Of
he comparatively small number that
will be marketed in the east and west
his year.
M. L. Dean, state horticulturist, de-
,lares that Montana produced only
enough apples this year for her own
Ise. Nevertheless commissioner
will be forced to ship in considerable
upply OF apples, due to the fact that
considerable portion of the Montana
ield has been shipped out of the state. {
A big part of the apple crop has
lready been sold. Of course the big I
est part of it will be consumed right /
ere In the state. There have been
liz intra-state shipments of apples. r
,illings, and in fact all of eastern I
fontana have bought heavily of the
rop produced in the western end of
lie state. =
Wherever the Montana apple is in 1
reduced it is popular, and almost in
ariably there is further demand for
hem the following year.
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tate Institutions Improved.
With the completion of the new
itchen and dormitory at the state
ospital for the insane at Warm