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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-02-26
MILLING TRUST
HAS BIG GRAFT

The Searchlight, a new paper
published at Helena by Sam w.
Teagarden, in the interest of the
farmers of the state, is after the
scalp of the milling concerns of
Montana. It claims, with ap-
parently good grounds, that. the
local flour mills are demanding
exhorbitant tolls for custom
grinding and buying wheat at
local prices and selling the manu-
factured product at prices equal
to added freight on the wheat to
Minneapolis and a double freight
by adding the rate on flour from
Minneapolis to Montana points.
By this policy it adds Is cents to
the price of every 49-pound sack
of flour sold, over and above a
legitimate trade profit. A re-
cent issue of the Searchlight
says:
1.-TWO years ago about this
time the house and senate of the
Thirteenth Legislative Assembly
unanimously adopted the report
of a special joint committee, in
which report occurred the follow
ing charge of extortion against
the flour mills of this state:
1t appears to the Committee
that prior to two years ago there
was but little wheat shipped out
of the state of Montana and that
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-02-26
Adding Insult to Injury

According to the Duluth News
Tribune, the adoption of a pro-
hibition amendment in Arizona
has added insult to injury.
Arizona, the land of deserts
and cactus plants, of Dead Mems
Gulch and Tombstone, where
water has always been at a pre-
MUM and they stake down the
level places to keep them from
being blown away, is the latest
state to be proclaimed prohibition
territory.
A bleached bone could not be
dryer than Arizona was born.
To vote it dry was the acme Of
sarcasm, the dust of wit.
Every drop of moisture the
state ever had was hidden in
deep canyons or manufactured
from a thirst. Nature made it
one elongated, parched throat
and now it's citizens, the few who
have been able to reverse the
process of fish gills by absorbing
moisture from the air, having in
a moment of mental ALTERATION
voted to indorse nature, find
themselves stuck" by the
courts, but not for the drinks.
Arizona is dry, so dry that no.
body knows just how dry it is.
But a dry law added to a dry
nature surely makes some
drought.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-02-26
After Peg Games

Sheriff Whitaker has announced
that the little peg games found
on the counters of so many busi-
ness houses, games where it is
so much per punch, are to be put
out of business. In Missoula, it
is said, parents are complaining
that their children are spending
all their savings on these games,
and in many instances grown-ups
are going broke against them.
Sheriff Whitaker and County At
torney Webster held confer
ence Monday at which it was de-
cidea to close them up and the
sheriff Immediately stated that
he wished to give flair warning
to all stores where the boards
are in operation. They must be
removed at once. Hereafter all
of these games found in oper-
alton will be treated the same as
any other gambling DEVICE"
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-02-26

local milling concerns took ad-
vantage of the rates in effect
and which We're up to that time
paper rates, for the purpose of
purchasing wheat at the lowest
possible price for milling in Mon
tana, and that after the flour was
manufactured, the said mills re-
sold the product to the people of
Montana and took advantage of
the high freight rates on flour to
make a double profit.
" These mills have enjoyed
practically a double-action pro-
tective tariff by reason of the
railroad rates for many years,
and in the opinion of this COM
mittee are to be censured even
more harshly than the railroad
companies.
" This Committee would rec
ommend that, if possible, such
legislation be enacted as will fix
to a reasonable degree the
amount of profit which said mill
ing concerns may earn from
these unusual conditions. >"
" The charge of the committee
has never been denied, and for
the entirely sufficient reason that
its truth cannot be successfully
disputed. Let the reader look
up the wholesale price of flour in
Minneapolis; to this let there be
added the freight on two hun
dred weight of flour from Mime
apolis to Helena, 81. 10; add also
the freight on five bushels Of
wheat from Montana to Mime.
apolis, 80 cents. The resultant
sum will be within a few cents
of the wholesale price of flour
charged by Montana millers te
retail merchants.
=" Let it be clearly understood
here and now, that the retail
; merchants of Montana are in nj
wise responsible for the higl
price Of flour. They are helples.
in the hands of the millers
trust. "
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-02-26
.LUSK ON COMPENSATION
At HELENA CLUB LUNCHEON

The Helena Independent of
last Thursday says:
Representative Addison Lusk
Of Missoula county, gave short
but interesting talk with refer
ence to the compensation bill to
be presented before the present
legislature, at the noon luncheon
of the Helena Commercial club
at the Eddy hotel yesterday.
Representative Lusk declared
that the elective compensation
measure which the joint COM
mittee of both house and senate
had decided to introduce would
be the only feasible plan for
Montana.
He pointed out that out of q
states which now have compen-
sation laws, Is have the elective
measures, while three have the
compulsory law. He doubted if
the compulsory law would stand
a test in the higher courts.
"The talk given by Represent
ative Lusk was we'll received by
the club members and others
present at the luncheon, and he
was made an honorary member
of the club because of his cour-
tesy in addressing the meeting.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-02-26

clusions appear to be so clearly
established from the record and
the amount involved so small,
comparatively, that l do not hes
itate to recommend, as a just
and satisfactory solution, that
congress enact S. 6373, subject
to the amendments suggested. :"
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-02-26
SENATE KILLED
COUNTY DIVISION

Thursday of last week wit
messed the fight pro and con on
the county division law in the
Montana senate, and if the bill
as passed by the senate becomes
a law it will be many years be-
fore any new counties are or
ganized under it's provisions. A
bill introduced by Kelly of Custer
county passed the house, but on
reaching the senate it was
shelved and another known as
the McCone bill was taken up for
consideration.
The Helena Independent says
Senator Oliver of Fallon county
led the fight against the Kelly
bill and moved to strike out the
enacting clause, which sent the
bill to the senate morgue, He
was ably supported by Senators
Roberts of Lincoln county, Alb
bott of Gallatin, Kinney of Wi
baux, and Fishbeck of Sheridan.
They pointed out that the en-
bryonic counties had gone ahead
in good faith and secured their
petitions and that they should
not be made to do the work all
over again, but that they be al
lowed to proceed under the old
law.
As passed, the McCone bill will
shut out all the new counties
now in process of organization.
elections for some of which have
already been called. It also pre-.
vides that new counties to be
created must have an assessed
valuation of SIS, 600, 600 and leave
the old counties with at least
So, 600, 600 assessed valuation,
and that the petitions for new
counties must have the signatures
of 65 per cent of the qualified
voters and that 65 per cent must
vote for the creation of the new
county.
Under the present law it took,
81 per cent of the qualified elec-
tors to sign the petition and 81
per cent Of the vote at the elec-
tion. New counties could be
created with an assessed valu-
alton of So, 000,0 600 and they were
required to leave the old counties
with but $4,000, 600.
There is little doubt but what
the McCone bill will become a
law, and under it's provisions the
Mission valley will remain an in
significant portion of Missoula
county for years to come.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1915-02-26
STRAIGHT TALK
BY REV. KETCHAM

mission appointed by the board
of Indian commissioners to visit
the Flathead and investigate as
to the justice Of the recent ap-
praisal and classification of In
dian lands. Rev. VIM. H. Ketch-
ANS summary of the findings in
the whole matter is so good, and
hits the facts so exactly, that it
is worth the attention OF every
American citizen who believes in
a square deal. He says:
For the government to adhere
to it's present demands upon
these settlers would not only be
unjust, but would undoubtedly
force large number of them to
forfeit everything they have in
vested in improvements, together
with their four years of work on
their lands. Many Of them set
tied upon so-called farm units
and expected that water would
be placed on their lands for irri-
cation purposes. Water has not
been made available to them and
will not be, perhaps, for years to
come. They have had repeated
crop failures; many of them have
spent all the earnings of previous
years, which they brought with
them to the country. and have
borrowed money to the full limit
of their credit with the hope Of
holding on till they get water or
until climatic conditions may
change to their benefit; they have
used their homestead right and
can not go elsewhere on the pub
lie domain to exercise it. The
question may be raised as to
whether the government should
open Indian reservations under
the homestead laws. The Flat
head experiment shows conclus-
lively that no entries should be
permitted on unappraised and
unclassified lands and no entries
on irrigable lands under so-called
farm units" prior to the COM
pletion of the irrigation projects.
On the other hand, the Indians
are clearly entitled, under the
Act of 1904 heretofore referred
to, to receive the appraised valu-
alton of their lands regardless of
the time when the appraisal is
made, and it would be unjust
and probably illegal to compel
the Indians to accept a price
lower thay the price fixed by the
appraisal commission. The delay
of the government in completing
classification and appraisal of the
lands withdrawn for various pur-
poses, a delay for which congress
is partly responsible, has worked
a hardship and loss to the In
dians by depriving them of an
earlier payment for their lands,
a consideration which, though
small, is worth noting. Senate
bill 576l, introduced on June 5,
1914, which provided for elimin-
ating the appraisal of the second
commission and fixing a definite
maximum price per acre for the
unappraised and unclassified
lands entered, left out of consid-
GRAFTON the legal rights and equi-
ties of the Indians, and the Sec
retary of the Interior could do
nothing else in justice to the In
dians than to report adversely on
that bill as he did under date of
of June 27, 1914.
Boiling the matter down, the
Indians would appear to have a
just claim against the govern
ment if the actual appraised
price is not paid for these lands,
while the settlers referred to
would have a similarly just claim
if they are compelled to pay
more than the prices fixed by
the first commission. These con-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12
rue FlNANcEs OF CANADA.

Horace n. Sanford, in the unite1
States consular service at Otta"1'
Canada, has the following to say re-
garding Canadian finances:
According to statement fuInIshea
by the finance department OF Canaua'
up to the night of June 80, 1919. sne
total net debt of Canada is $45u,Zoi -
lT21, or SIS zoo, 900 more than In MAY
last, and over $1s0.00o, 900 more tna-i
one year ago Temporary loans. iE-
Guiding the war loans, and DOMINION
notes. account for most OF this. Tern
porary loans amount to $1oo, oo'
az against $S.213.333 last year. Domla-
ion notes issued total s$152.loo,Sia
compared with $I1e.679.S3s last year
at this time.
The revenue and expenditure ng-
ures on consolidated funds are hignis
satisfactory. There is little yarlatini
from last year On June 80. this year.
the total revenue for the irst tnr =
months of the present fiscal year was
sS3. 49,. 266. as against $33,66u-5s9 on
the same date last year. For june
last it was s11,4s3,9To, compared VIII
with sl2.0ST rs. The expenditure GU
current account for the three mohtns
was s12.s24,S52. or decrease OF
about 5000. 900.
There is an increase OF over q lnu-
lion dollars on capital account. the TO
tai for the past three months penn
$500. LA. more than half OF winch
was paid out last month.
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home Of Chas. Pence Saturday night
August IA. Everybody cordially in
vfted to attend
The Shield bearers" class Of mi,
Sunday school is certainly the banner
class. They have twenty enrolled
eighteen of which were present Sun.
day.
Next Sunday. Bro. West will fill hi,
Irregular appointment here. If nothing
prevents.
E.. J. Hagney is spending a few
days with his sister, Mrs. H. O.
,Strosnider.
Quite a number Of young peop,a
surprised Harvey Chance on his
birthday Tuesday by going to see
him. with well filed baskets and
number OF presents.
Mrs. A. A. Peterson and Miss Mar.
tina Deere Of Keokuk are spending
few days with home folks.
Little Bethel Kerr has returned
home after a two weeks visit in tho
vicinity OF Ashton. Mo.
Vera Chronicle is spending the
week in Pennington. attending char
tauqna.
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WILL POWER.

Dr.. John Brady OF Philadelphia has
saved himself. at IS he is as pert
as yorngster.
1t is all due to the fact that when
so he discovered himself below grade
physically and determined to correct
the difficulty He took exercise Now
he can do front and back "fiip-faps
in regular pinwlleel fashion, like a
circus acrobat. In the water he's a
duck and can dire la Kellermann at
any angle you choose. In this con-
nection. he can do the .jack-knife, :
the twist or a back dive without
even pausing to think about it. He
takes long hikes before breakfast
when younger men are still IN bed.
and by way of diversion makes short
sketches of the places he visits afoot.
Now, how did he do it, The ac-
count of his achievement has this
significant sentence in It:
He followed the rules laid down
rigidly.'
That is the first and last rule In
achieving reforms of this character.
nothing is quite as true as the saving
that men after 10 are often too lazy
to live That is. they haven't the
nerve to follow the rules rigidly.
because it is much easier not TO do
so. They ride rather than walk. they
loaf rather than play tennis. they
sleep rather than swim
Forty Is too late. often. to begin:
so is worse: but If man follows
the rules rigidly" nothing is hopeless.
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keokuk, Iowa ...... August IL. 1915
SUMMER NIGHTS.

SUMNER NIGHTS.
An, sweetiy start the summer nights,
out here,
All, passing sweetly. end the sum
mer days,
Through avenues of trees the
zepyr strays,
And on the distant hills the lights ap-
pear:
The sheep bells from the meadow
tinkle clear,
And cattle low along the pasture
ways;
And memories waken as the dewfall
sprays
With flower scents the cooling atmos-
phere.
Peace, like a benediction. settles
down,
There Is no clash of noises any
where,
We hear the rustling OF nights silken
gown,
We see the star gems in her sable
hair,
And far across the purple hills. the
town
Pants in the heat. and people well
ter there,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

contract duh
council.
July 90 1915. by the following vote:
Aye-Moorhead Collins, Schmidt
Approved and
s. ". MoORHEAD
Mayor OF of Keokuk
o.. w sANDBERG. City Clerk
Keosnr
in a
Addition
Aye-Moorhead Collins,
s. ". MooRHEAD Mayor
o. sANDBERG.
2 m.
s. ". MooRFIEAD Mayor
sANDBERG. city
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WAR VETERAN REIIREs-

The ayerage reader is mildly aston
fshed to learn that the last civil war
veteran Is to be retired from the act
I've service of tie United States army
Friday. The war closed fifty yea rs
ago. The magnificent Grand Army of
the Republic IS but a remnant. thc
veterans having fallen for years ike
winters withered leaves" That q
veteran should still be in active serv.
ice staggers comprehension. until IL ia
revealed that the veteran" was but
fourteen years old when peace came.
says the ST. Louis G1obe-Democrat
The name OF the youngest soldier o.
the war" is legion. The claims OF
many must be taken on faith. Bn.
not SO IN tie case OF Johnny" Glenn
now officially known as Colonel John
Lincoln Glenn. United States ARM
and son to be Brigadier General
Glenn, retired. He has the records
Born on August 10, 1851, he unsuccesz
i fully tried TO enlist in an Ohio and
later IN Michigan regiment as drum
mer boy before he was ten. But OF
May /, 1862. before he was eleven
he managed by some hook or crook &c
get into the Twenty-second Michigaf
infantry. He served in the army o.
the Cumberland during the. war, drum
ming and fighting at Shiloh. Chfca
manga, Perryville. stone River, Res
AGA, kenesaw,> Atlanta and Nashville
At the age of twelve he was made
sergeant because of his heroism a
Chikamauga. Naturally. the alert ant
heroic lad became a favorite with OF
ficers and men
when the war closed he went bacl
home and attended school for fv'
years. President Grant waived th'
rules apd commissioned him lieuten
amt, although he had no regular milf
.tary eduAation, a deficiency he in,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

Quincy Is doing considerable dis
cussing and not little cussing about
a recent Job of paving. The matter
of paving is receiving more attention
than il used to. The slip-shod and ex-
pensive method of paving the streets
with materials that are only temper
ary and easily washed out by heavy
rains is no credit TO city or econ
omv to the property owners. keokuk
has wasted thousands of dollars on
streets that have survived but few
wears, There is now disposition
when improved to make them OF a
permanent character and it is to be
hoped that this polict will be as per-
manent as the proposed new streets.
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QUALITY NOT QUANTITY.

college and university eoucatiOn
has outgrown the boom stage, de-
clares DR.. Samuel P. Capen. in the
annual report Of the o. S. commits
sioner of education. Just issued
THE day OF the academic promoter
of the imitation of values is over.
confusion of prospects and realities.
stiII going on. but for the most part
unaccompanied by the frenzied adver-
Using so common in the past and en-
couragingly free from the optimistic
confusion Of prospects and reia1ties-
The DEVELOPMENTS of the year
strengthen the condition which has
been ripening fer some time that
higher education is now looking to
its foundation and setting its house
in order
Colleges and universities have
come under the sway OF the slogan
efficiency Surveys undertaken by
outsiders and by officials OF the instr
tuition to be examined have become
increasingly frequent There has been
vigorous activity on the part OF sew
eraI voluntary associations that con-
Germ themselves with standards OF en-
trance. graduation, and constitutional
equipment. Some of this activity has
crystallized in the form OF recommen-
dat.ons that will effect educational
procedure over considerable areas
The adoption OF some form Of group
system has been reported to the O. s.
bureau OF education by twenty-one In
situations, undoubtedly only frac-
ton Of the whole number of colleges
that have taken this step"
The idea that it Is quality rather
than quantity OF work done by a col
lege student that counts toward eff
fective education, has already re-
ceived tangible recognition in few
| institutions through the granting of
extra credit for quality, saws DR..
Capen- Several prominent institutions
have been reorganized and other new
departm ents have been formed: and
several others aer experimenting with
new types Of vocational courses re-
lated TO local Industrial activities.
DR. Capen mentions Montana. Kan.
sas, and Idaho as three more states
where the administration or state IN.
stitutons Of higher education has
been further centralized through re-
cent legislative action
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12
After several years Of experimeuts

After several years OF experimental
and development work, a printing tele-
graph system has been perfected that
will undoubtedly create new epoch
in the history Of telegraph. BY this
system, message, written upon a
modified form of typewriter at one en1
of a telegraph line, is automatically
printed, ready for delivery, at the 9th
er. Furthermore, not only one, bu.
eight messages may be sent simultah
eously over a single wire. each mes
sage being printed as easily as tbs
sending operator can typewrite It.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

The Hamilton chautauqua Will not
close until the 18th of August. which
gives ample opportunity for the citi-
zens of Keokuk to patronize this
worthy enterprise. Besides getting
the educational benefit from attend
ing there is social and neighborly
asset and this Is worth cultivating.
Keokuk has always been liberal and
appreciative patron OF the Hamilton
chautauqua and this season should not
show any different attitude. Rather
an enlargement of the good feeling.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

Imediately supplied by attending an
artillery school at Fort Monroe HIS
service In the regular army has been
Imeritorious. but his chief renown,
through no fault OF his, has been as
.The drummer boy of Chickamauga
For years he has been the sole INK
binding the regular army to the grea.
army Of volunteers that made SUCH
heroic sacrifices that government u
the people. for the people and by the
people should not perish from tne
EARTH"
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VINO NNEs.
) 80 - 80 = 80 80 =

! = ( .4q1 i
Owing to the pleasant weather the
farmers are getting their thrashing
done ut last.
George McCarty Is spending a few
days in Keokuk. From there he is
going to wisconsin for visit.
Miss Grace Hourel, who has been
spending her,Svacation at Deere's. has
returned home.
Henry Pence, Harry Goone and Will
Price motored to Keokuk Sunday aft
ernoon.
A large crowd OF picnickers spent
Sunday at their picnic grounds on
Lovers Lane
Eight Of our young folks spent Fri
day evening at Bob Deere's at Bel
fast All report q good time.
The thrashing machines have been
having some pretty regular visitors
this week.
Our Literary club" meets at the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

When one looks back-fiye years
seem but short time. Then by looS'
ing ahead for five years. one can
realize the possibilities. A savings
account will in FIVE years provide the
foundation for permanent successor
provide a substantial addition to the
start already made. The saving habit
has been the most powerful factor IN
the success OF most successful people.
Start an account and watch it grow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

Mayor Mitchell OF New York doesn'-
think well of the New Jersey law gov
erning motorists He was fined for
speeding and had to talk mighty hard
at the capital to keep from losing his
license to drive over the Jersey roads
He'll keep close to Manhattan whcl
he wants TO do a little road burning
hereafter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

A young daughter OF Bronislaw Ko-
walczyk of Easthampton was seized
with violent fit of coughing, which
brought from her throat q stickpi I
she swallowed five years ago. In a
similar coughing fit last fall the
stone which had been set in this pin
was recovered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

Judge ChatEeId In the federal dis
trict court at Brooklyn, cut the claims
for attorneys fees in receivership
case from sI26.721 TO s39,525, sayins,
the attorneys had done little effecti7 :
work for the creditors.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

Another step in woman's progress
was taken Wednesday. when the fret
woman justices in the British empire
were nominated in South Australiz.
One OF them is Mrs. Price. widow oil
the states first labor premier