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The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-24
FEAR FLOODS IN BRAzOs
 BOTTOMS EQUAL THAT OF 1913

Houston, Texas, April 23.--Fears are entertained tonight that the Brazos bottom will suffer flood dam age equal to that Of the floods Of 1913. At Hearne the Little Brazos river Friday night was rising at the rate of eight inches per hour. The Big Brazos had risen 31 feet there since Thursday night and planters in the bottoms are getting their stock and tenants out as the Little Brazos was coming slowly over the lowlands.
 Bastrop reports that the Colorado river wasup 26 feet at that point Fri day evening at o'clock and rising rapidly, A heavy rain above that point Thursday night caused farm CTS in the lOwlands to spend Friday abandoning their farms. The H0us- ton and Texas Central railroad has been unable to operate trains be tween Marlin and Bremond since : o'clock Thutsday night.
 Eight inches of rain fell at Cam eron Thursday night Friday even ing the Little river was oyerflowing and had almost reached the flood stage of December, 1913, when the big Santa Fe dump washed away.
 Four hundred feet of track between Cameron and Waco, on the san An- tonic and Aransas Pass across Cow bayou, has been washed away.
 At San Marcos the Blanco river is up about six feet
 The San Marcos river at Ottine is 39 feet and rising rapidly and back ing water up the tributary streams Plum creek rose all day Friday and is still rising and at the railroad bridge reached AZ feet Peach creek in lower Gonzales county is all over the bottoms.
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SWAT THE FLYl by letting the Missouri Lumber Co screen your homes. Phones 1355 or l04G.
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.SUPT. COOK IS
 UNDER A FIRE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
Heating Plants.

may be advised of the apparent con ditiOns.
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JUDGE FREEZER GRANTS
 THREE-CENT RATE
SUIT WAS BROUGHT BY KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN AGAINST
 RAILROAD COMMlSS SSION.

Little Rock, April 23-Judge Jacob Trieber in United States district court today granted the Kansas City Southern railroad authority to charge
 three cents passenger rates and freight rates considerably higher than those that had been fixed by the
 state railroad commission The au- thority was conferred in a decree en- joining the railroad commission from enforcing the two-cent passenger rate and reduced freight rates provided in an act passed by the Arkansas legis- lature in 1907 A short time ago the Frisco railroad was granted a similar injunction and it is reported that the Iron Mountain, Rock Island and Cot ton Belt railroads will take similar action soon. A member of the state railroad commission said today that he believes all railroads in Arkansas will be charging three-cent passenger rates and greatly increased freight rates within a month. The commis- sion is preparing to appeal the cases to the United States supreme court Try a SentlneI-Record Want Ad.,
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Cook Makes Answer.


 General denials of charges made by the committee were made by officials of the state highway department and the department of education. George B. Cook. state superintendent of pub lie instruction, made a formal denial of the alleged shortage in the money received for state teachers licenses in his office, saying that it is non existent.
 He also denied he was connected, directly or indirectly, with any firm manufacturing school appurtenances which are recommended to school oi- ficias through his office.
 "The statements of the investigat' ing committee, in reference to the state department of public instruc- ton, show on their face such an evi- dent effort to cast unjust aspersions and are so interwoyen with insinua- tions and utterly unreasonable fiction that they almost answer themselves and scarcely merit the dignity of a formal answer" said Mir. Cook.
 The alleged shortage is in fact non-existent and is made up almost entirely of blank stubs against which no certificates were issued.
 The nsinuation that | might JOS sibly have been in some way associ- ated with some company which sold school supplies is without foundation, either in fact or appearance. The James L. Waterbury Land Company sells no school supplies and is as foreign to the W Naterman-Waterbury Company as two concerns can pos sibly be. MT Waterbury severed his official connection with the Water Waterbury Stove Company be- fore he organized the land com 2any. | was offered the vice presidency ot the land company. but upon careful consideration did not accept this place and rendered my resignation without ever having actually served as an officer of this land company although there exists no legal or ethi- cal reason why l should not do SD. It was purely a business proposition and business considerations governed my decision
 "I have persistently endeayored to have this department represented be. fore the committee and had conf dently expected that a hearing would be given this office before the com mittee published it's report This req sonable courtesy was denied this de parment, although it had been granted to the other offices in which the investigations were conducted The members of the committee re- fused to visit this office or in any way to discuss it's allegations. 1 feel that this office should in simple justice have been interrogated and the com mittee have at least heard our side of the case. In this way, they would have been set right on several mis- statements contained in their pub lished report"
The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-24
FOURTEEN KILLED
 IN AUSTIN FLOOD
THE PROPERTY LOSS IS EST. MATED AT HALF MILLION
 DOLLARS.
Rescuing Parties Struggled All Night in the Dark to Get Helpless Wo- men and Children Out of Danger.

Austin, Texas, April 23.-Wth the bodies of fourteen persons drowned here last night recovered, eleven per sons missing and rescuing parties still at work among the ruins of two hundred homes that were swept away by yesterdays rain and wind storm, the citizenship of Austin this afternoon began systematic plans for the relief of sufferers Property loss is estimated at $50O,00O Temporary quarters were provided tonight for all whose homes had been swept away or are not habitable, and food and clothing is being furnished
 The identified dead include four teen persons ~ six whites, five negroes, and three Mexicans. The white drowned are:
 A. E. Young.
 Thomas Quinn.
 Miss Ellen King.
 Mrs Charles R. Winkler.
 Martha Virginia Ezell.
 Estimates on the damage vary, but in all probability will reach $500,- O00 Twenty bridges were swept away and paved streets were razed.
 Ten inches of rain fell in two hours last night and torrents of water poured into the homes of people liy- ing in lowlands before the alarm could be given.
 With the city in darkness, rescuing parties struggled all night 10 get helpless women and children out of danger.
 The body of Mrs Charles R. Wink Ter was carried l6 miles down the river by the force of the flood
 Among the missing is George Wilmington, son of A. G. Wilmington of Houston, vice president of the In. tenatonal and Great Northern rail road. He and a companion were camping on a river when the flood came. When they realized that they were about to be overwhelmed they began to swim for higher ground. The companion escaped but Whit tington has not been seen since.
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Heating Plants.
 We also find that the Waterman Waterbury Company of Minneapolis. Minn., j. L. Waterbury. secretary, are manufacturers and jobbers of heating plants for school buildings and is recommended 10 the schools of the state by our superintendent, and we find that George B. Cook, superiutend- ent of public instruction of the state of Arkansas. is vice president of the firm of James l.. Waterbury Company, Minneapolis, Mun., who from their correspondence. appear to be dealing in real estate and otherwise All of the above shows some apparent con nection that should be more thorough y investigated, as some people might infer from the connection that our superintendent is interested and using his official position in boosting the sale of these heating plants for his own personal and financial gain. We make no charge of misconduct in this, but merely give the public our meager lHlbIIUdtlOHs DetduSt we btiiGNt Llldt the people have the right to know whether or not their offices are in any way connected or used in private affairs
 "If the members of this committee were financially able to lose the time and expend the money, they would gladly continue the investigation sole ly for the benefit of the taxpayers of the state of Arkansas; but without legal authority and without funds, We are forced to submit this report to your excellency with much regret and extending our deep sympathy to the taxpayers of the state of Arkansas, for we realize more than anyone else that their political poke is heavy and their burdens of taxation great
 Respectfully submitted, this 22d day of April, 1915. Auditing Commit tee of State departments and lnstitu- | tions,
 GEO. w. GARRETT,
 MONROE SMITH,
 "U. A. GENTRY"
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RIGGS BANK sU5PoENAs
 BANK EXAMINER

Washington. April 23.--lt became known tonight that the Riggs Ma tional bank has had Charles Starek, deputy federal reserve agent of the New York federal reserve bank. sub- poenaed to testify in the injunction proceedings against Secretary Me Adoo of the treasury and Comptroller of the Currency Williams. MT Starek was national bank examiner at New York for a long time and it is under stood he wanted to testify as to the comptroller's inquiries into the rela- tions between the Riggs bank and the National City bank of New York. Hearig of the injunction proceedings has been set for May 2.
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HUNTED MAN GIVES UP.

San Antonio, Texas, April 23-E. c. Randy, indicted in Kansas City by the federal grand jury on charge of using the mails to defraud gave him self up to the authorities at Corpus Christi Texas, saying he was tired of being bounded by the officers of the law. In charge of United States Deputy Marshal J. Mckinney he left for Kansas City tonight.
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Try a Sentinel. Record classified Ad.
The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-24
Splendid for Rheumatism.

'I think Chamberlain's Eminent is just splendid for rheumatism, writes Mrs. Dunburgh, Eldridge, N Y. "lt has been used by myself and other members of my family time and time again during the past six years and has always given the best of satisfac. tion" The quick relief from pain which Chamberlain's Eminent affords is alone worth many times the cost, Obtainable everywhere.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10
School Valuation
Doubles

The assessed valuation of the
Cut Bank school district, District
No. is, will almost be doubled
next year, by the addition of a
strip of territory 27 miles long,
along the Great Northern rail-
way, on the Blackfeet Reserva-
ton. In this territory is the
town of Blackfoot, and t s
town has a school provided by
the parent district, but has local
jurisdiction in the management
of its school affairs.
The addition of this territory,
or in other words, the additional
revenue as a consequence, gives
the Cut Bank district a valua-
ton Of yearly $l,400,000. Five
years ago $685. 900 school build.
ing was erected here, the best
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10
Cut Bank Located in Americas Greatest Flax Zone
If Secretary Does Not Oppose It,
Part of Blackfeet May Be Opened

If Secretary Lane takes a
stand in opposition to the open
ing of the Blackfeet Reservation
at the present session of Con-
gress, his influence may block
the program of opening, either
in whole or in part, but if he
Keeps hands off" it seems quite
probable that the eastern edge
will be thrown open for settle
ment some time next year.
The Secretary recently ex-
pressed himself in opposition to
opening the Grow reservation in
eastern Montana and he may
take the same position inregard
to opening the Blackfeet.
The entire Montana delegation
in Congress is committed in ia
vor of the plan of opening a
strip twelve miles wide a n d
sixty miles long, on the eastern
edge, the finest agricultural por-
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10

in some neigboring town.
A night or two before Christ
mas a community tree and pro-
gram will be the feature at the
Hall. The program will be a
rendering of t h Bethlehem
Pageant" a dramatization with
appropriate stage scenery and
costuming Of t h e wonderful
story of the birth of our Lord.
A large company will be need
ed to stage this holy scene, and
the entire community will be
we'll represented.
The Presbyterian church is
making special efforts to en-
phasize the religious aspect of
this festive season. The pastor
has announced four Christmas
sermons, all dealing with the
Person of Jesus the Messiah,
eliminating in u e S tn e
Prince of Peace" for Dec. 10Th.
Every Sunday evening before
the regular service begins a
chorus choir Of young people
will meet in the church to sing
the great Christmas hymns and
music required for the "Bethle-
lhorr p,~-
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10

Sol Gunzberger has open
ed a cleaning and repairing
department in the @. n. no.
tel. Sol is an expert in the
cleaning and pressing lines
and has started on his way
with a brisk business.
For Sale-Good driving horse.
horse, gentle; also buggy and har,
ness. nj. S. Bush. If.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10

in this part of the state, and
high school work was taken up.
The board found it rather diff
cult at times to meet the press
ing needs of a rapidly growing
population and consequent rap
id increase in attendance at
school, t h G purchase of high
school paraphernalia, the addi-
ton of members to the teaching
corps and an infinite number of
other problems, not least being
the raising of sufficient
as little of the land hereabouts
had passed to patent until about
two years ago.
But with the addition of this
big and rich territory and the
rapid increase in the number of
decided FARMS, the board sees its
problems growing lighter.
Eight teachers comprise the
present corps. The Cut Bank
school is on the state high school
four year accredited list. 1t is
recognized today as the leading
educational institution in this
part of northern Montana.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10
Electric Light and Sewage System
Cut Banks Two Greatest Needs

A sewage system. they s a v,
would cost approximately $20,-
900.
One or wo large business
buildings and a number Of mod
ern homes are being planned
for next year. The business
places a n d homes that have
been built here within the past
couple of years have been wired
for electric lighting and pro-
vided with facilities for the in
Stallation Of a sewage system.
The year 1915 has been a most
prosperous one for Cut Bank
and next spring will witness the
beginning of another forward
stride. Good water, good light,
good sanitation, are essentials in
modern city building. Cut
Bank has a splendid water sys-
tenn and will have a sewage and
lighting system before the close
Of another year, we feel certain.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10
The Spirit Of Santa claus No7v
H0Ueyy OUer Gut Bank

Cut Bank people are preparing
to celebrate thesC Christmas festi-
val as never before. Wherever
one goes about the town the
christmas spirit" is felt. The
merchants doing a brisk
business. Evidently the propa-
ganda for early Christmas shop
ping is having a good effect.
Family reunions, home lestivi-
ties and surprise parties are be-
ing planned. SO that the little
town is going to have a genuine
old time Merry Christmas"
School, church and Sunday
school are busy preparing good
things for mind and soul-en-
t~ertainment, instruction and up
liftment.
First comes the high school
play to be given at the hall
on Friday evening, Dec. II.
This is a modern and revised
edition Of Shakespeare's" Mer-
chant Of Venice. The boys
and girls are working hard or
it every night. and hope to make
it such assuecess thatthere viii
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10

A sewage system and an cleo
trio lighting system for C u t
Bank are two issues that will
undoubtedly come to the fore
next spring. Hygienic consid-
erations demand the early in
stallation of a good sewage sys-
tenn for Cut Bank. OF course
it will be Incumbent on the
town to install this system. An
electric light and power system
is another pressing need. But
many are Of the opinion that
this should be left to private
enterprise, by granting a short
term franchise. They argue
that the sewage and water sys-
TENS will entail sufficient finan-
cial burden on the part of the
city for years to come. Our
municipal water system cost
nearly $4,000, and is one of the
best in this part of Montana.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10

A sensational report reached
here Tuesday from the land of
big game, to the effect that Bob
Rasmussen h a d shot a large
deer and when an investigation.
was made it was found that the
animal was wearing a COW bell,
fastened around its throat. The
report took precedence of all
others on the news bulletins for
that day, as it is the logical
supposition that the said deer
was a domesticated one. To
verify the truth or, fiction of
the rumor, the Pioneer Press
sent a very special reporter in
to the vast solitudes where BOZ
is stalking game, with sealed IN
structions to get the full and ex-
act details, and will try and re-
port to an eager clientele the
facts nexr week.
Eye Specialist, DIR. A. Howe
will be at the Cut Bank hotel
Tuesday, December Ia, prepar-
ed to treat all eye defects.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10

Exchange or trade-a IS
horse power stationery en-
CINE and generator. Will
light a town of 500 people.
run a movie house or make
the big farm look like fairy
land or Coney Island. Dirt
cheap. B. r. McNamer.
Before doing your Xmas
shonpino-See RuSh's lima
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10

ton of the Blackfeet, and wa
tered by the Two Medicine pro-
ject. Under this plan, the west
ern part would remain a stock
section and the monies derived
from the sale Of lands in the
territory mentioned would be
used to stock up the western
part, which is one of the best
stock sections in the West.
Petitions are now being cir
culated among the Indians, by a
member of the Indian council,
praying for the opening of the
eastern edge. 1t is said that the
petitions are being signed freely.
If the necessary majority of
male citizens with rights OH the
Reserve, 255, is secured the pc
tition will be forwarded to Sen.
T. j. Walsh, who will lead the
fight in Congress for the early
opening of this strip.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10
Market Is
Topping Others

The Cut Bank grain market
continues to be iii the lead
Of all neighbor towns, Even
Sweet Grass, which led us
all fab, having the advantage
Of connections with the c.
P. r., and water transporta-
ton from Port Arthur to
Duluth, is now tagging be-
hind the local market.
Grain from the Family
Mission, twenty five miles
south, is being hauled here,
despite the fact that other
points are nearer.
The Market;
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10
High Scbool Pupils to Present
"Merbam Of Vemics'

On Monday evening, Dec. II, at SIS sharp, Browns
hall, the pupils of the High School and the Seventh and
Eighth grades will present The Merchant of Venice
Down to Date" The following is the cast of characters:
The Duke of Venice Felix Haglund
Antonio, Senior, Capt. OF Football Team Art. Halvorson
Bassanio, his friend and sutton to Portia Glen Ransom
Gratiano, another friend Otis Rasmussen
|Shylock, a Wealthy Gambler Wesley Brown
Tubal, Capt. Belmont football team Ralph Ransom
Launcelot Gobbo, Servant to Shylock Harvey Halvorson
The Professor, an ex-ray Photographer Edward Hall
Policeman Frederick Wilkins
Portia, Rich HeiresS Dorothea Halvorson
Nerssa, her Friend, Gertrude Rasmussen
Jessica, Shylocks Ward Aldene Darlington
Miss Abbie c. Threedice, a teacher Laura Richards
Polly, Portals Maid Rose Chase
Antonio's Mother Rose Chase
The play is a comedy, full of ~laughable situations.
Between the acts music, declarations, and other spec
ialties will be given.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10
Peterson Has H1gben Ayeyuge

The honor for the highest average yield of fax for
this year goes to Charles w. Peterson, a rancher near f.
Lake, north of Cut Bank. Mr.. Peterson had a 50-acre
field of fax that yielded "a bushels to the acre. The fax
was threshed last week, after standing in rick all fall thru
wind, rain and snow. If Mr.. Peterson had sold his crop
of fax from this 50-acre field on the local market today,
it would bring him approximately $33oo.OO, Where car
beat that for pro6ts1
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10

There have been many other splendid yields of fax
here this fall, ranging from 20 to 80 bushels. The above
two are the high peaks and probably will. stand as the big
gest fax yields ever recorded. The Pioneer Press lays
special emphasis on these yields, because of the fact that
few sections in the United States are adapted to the pro-
duction of a superior quality and high yield of flax. Fibre
experts and paint manufacturers asset that this region ly-
ing close to the Rockies in Montana is the best fax zone
in America. AS fax invariably commands a good price,
its production on anything like the scale recorded above
will make our farmers rich in a very few years and send
land values soaring to dizzying heights.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10
Some SPRING WlbeA 1lezM

The wheat and oats yields in this community this fall
have been a revelation, surprising all former harvests, and
while we don't lay claim to breaking records in the produc-
ton of winter wheat or oats, as a number of places in
Montana lay claim to winter wheat yields as high as 70
bushels per acre and oats as high as 40 bushels, we do as
sert that we have recorded some big wheat yields that
stand at the top.
Fifty one bushels of Marquis wheat, on the farm OF
G. T.. Williams, 5 miles east of Cut Bank, is a higher rec
ord than Canada ever made-and Canada is the home OF
Marquis wheat, fine spring variety. Mr.. Williams wheat
"ran over about 3 pounds to the bushel at the Baltic ele-
vator.
More remarkable than this, perhaps, was the yield OF
bluestem wheat on the ranch of N. L. Dixie, near Hay
Lake, north of Cut Bank. Mr.. Oikle's bluestem yielded
81 bushels to the acre-he having threshed 800 bushels
from a 6-acre patch.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-12-10
Cut Bank Community Holds World
Record For Highest Yield of Flax
Robert Paul Holds The Distinction
Harvest of 1915 in this Section Was an Extraordinary
One and Prosperity Here is at High Tide
Plans being Made for Much
Development in 1916
Record IS UnSuybassed

The Cut Bank section has broken the worlds record
for the highest yield per acre of fax. There is no record
anywhere Of a higher yield per acre than that of Robert
Paul, who resides about eight miles northeast of Cut Bunk
From a 10-acre patch, $50 bushels was ~threshed, by Sever
Berger's t~hreshing outfit. Mr.. Paul had another 15-acre
field that had not been plowed for two years and this field
produced a crop of p bushels per acre. Mr.. Paul is a con-
sentative Scotchman and said little about this remarkable
yield. Both he and Mr.. Berger will make affidavit for the
publicity department of the Great Northern that this
amount was actually threshed from a 10-acre field.