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The Seward gateway., 1915-10-16
* % * (: (: % $ < * < < < * BABY BOY BORN TO * * MRS. FRANK SHEEN [:

A fine baby bon was born to Mrs. Frank Skeen, the wife of the promin- ent local mining man. Mrs. Skeen and the baby are very we'll, the at tending doctor says.
The Seward gateway., 1915-10-16

Mike Connolly is a returning pas senger on the Evans for his home in Hope after spending few days at Valdez attending court.
The Seward gateway., 1915-10-16
PUEBLA AT CORDOVA

The Puebla arrived at Cordova at noon today and will not, therefore, be here before tomorrow.
The Seward gateway., 1915-10-16
MARIPOSA MAIL ON EVANS

The Mariposa mail arrived on the Evans today.
The Seward gateway., 1915-10-16

Later) l.. V. Ray received word this afternoon that the Ballaine case has been transferred to Seward and will be treid here after the arrival of the Puebla. This probably means that court will come here earlier than expected.
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-12-30

- >. +. + flSHer was STdntcu Oil 4ANAeS |
ment of taxes in the amdhnt of $3.50
on Lewistown city property, account
of clerical error in computing valua- |
ton. |
Bills Allowed.
Bills were allowed as follows:
Poor Fund.
Kane Co., repairs at county farm.
$116.97.
Fergus County Hardware Co., sup
plies county farm. $15.45.
Montana Hardware Co., supplies
county farm, $92.45.
Montana Hardware Co., supplies
county farm, 1890.
Fad Shoe & Clothing Co., supplies
county farm, $22.65.
c. L. kenney, apples county farm,
Montana Power Co., current poor
farm, s27.15.
A. II. Brew, coal poor farm, s104.04.
| Palace Meat Market, meat county
farm, $24.7S.
Lewistown Furniture Co., bedding
poor farm, $21.3O.
Montana Flour Mills wheat, oats,
ETC., county farm. $21.72.
Montana Lumber Co., lumber Door
farm, s3.95.
A. Van Leeurven, blacksmithing
poor farm, s425.
Baker & Son, blacksmithing, $14.75.
A. Van Leeuwen, horseshoeing,
$3.50.
G. w. Anderson, box for pauper, $8.
! Montana Lumber Co., coal poor
farm, $S2.05.
Power Mercantile Co., merchandise
poor farm, $197.24.
Tom Pratt, November allowance
$40.
Oliver Jutras, November allowance
SIS.
Henry Johnson, November allow.
ance, $40.
Margaret Swan. November allow.
ance, IS.
Harriet Brunner, November allow
ance. SIS.
Mrs. N. Van Hyning. November al
lowance, $40.
Laura Moore, November allowance
$40
Mrs. B. F. Thierkoff, November al
lowance. $40.
Fannie Ferguson, November allow
: ance, $10
Jno. Dallas, November allowance
, $40.
f Margaret Laverdure. November al
. lowance, $40.
: Albert Rome, November allowance
, SIS.
! Mrs. Rose Sweeney, November al
/ lowance. $40.
Mrs. Mary Richards, November al
!, lowance, $3.50.
: Geo. Berry, November allowanc
! Mrs. LeTray, $3.50.
: Prouett 4 Ahrendt, transportatio,
$4.
Mabel l.. Berkin, care Edna Val
s25
v Millie L. Conway, care childre,
' s45.O5.
n Millie Conway, keep OF boys, $46.5
o Mrs. f. Tullock, care of childrel
f $33.
Il w. w. Hoagland, board of children
q $3.50.
. Peter Shannon, groceries for poo
SIS.
Chas Lehman Co., merchandise ou
% side poor, $5.65.
y Y. Caraway, merchandise for poo
!. s2s.5O.
Mathews & Wilson, supplies. $2s1
# Popular Restaurant, meals for d.
# pendents, s23.10.
a E. p. Durnen, transportation fun
v SIS.
d E. P. Durnen, transportation fun
"a $4S.7O.
House Good Shepherd, keep
J. Wells children, $40.
) st. Joseph's Hospital, care J. Phi
,t lips, $40.
Ia O. Lucier, refund poor tax, So
,r A. G. VeilleuX, refund poor tax, s
s. European Hotel, room Thos Pc
re kins. s1.50.
ID d. S. Jones, rent Tom Pratt, $24.
At Adjt. E. Huskinson, cash advance
a 1915.
i seiden Drug Co.,ssupplies. 50.
IN A. N. Nebel, burying Jno. Doe, 81
Of Burr Hill, burying Dave Young, s4
ar F. w. Cotton. professional service
[o SO.
D. c. c. shipley. supplies for poe
q s10.5O.
l. Kelly & Hancock, merchandise poe
10 60 cents.
of F. B. Scovel, hack hire. $12.
Roy E. Ayers, cash advanced, SS2a
Hilger Drug Co., merchandise f
poor s2.75.
e. G. r. Creek. burial, $33.
I'd The Bootery, supplies, $49O.
of A. A. Stapleton, plumbing, 1891
a. The Leader. merchandise for poo
5000.
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-12-30

= S. p. Fisher was granted an abate-
ment of taxes in the amdunt of S39.S3
on Lewistown city property, account
of clerical error in computing valua-
ton
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-12-30

Continued on, Page Six.)
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
LIABILITY BILL
IS RESCUED
Friends of Measure Made a Flank
Movement in Senate
Yesterday.

Friends of the Employers Liability
bill introduced by Senator Bronson,
executed a flank movement in the SEN
ate yesterday and saved the measure
from an early demise. The state at
fairs committee recommended that
the bill be indefinitely postponed, but
a minority report, asking that the
bill be sent to the judiciary commit
tee carried.
The committee was badly divided
upon the measure, which is fashioned
after the Minnesota law. Senator
Bronson explained that he wished con-
sideration postponed until the secre-
tary of the Minnesota Employers. as
ISOLATION could appear before the
senate judiciary committee and eX-
plain the various features of the law.
Under the bill farmers, both en-
ployer and employe, are exempted.
There has been considerable criti-
cism of the bill in Minnesota, in that
it does not protect the workingmen
sufficiently and makes them more or
less the prey of insurance companies
and ambulance chasers. However,
the senate will learn the experience OF
Minnesota from all angles before act
ing upon this specific form of work
ingmen's compensation legislation.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
CAPITAL N B

James J. Hill recently has summed
up the relationship of capital and
labor in this cogent fashion:
Capital must be considered as we'll
as labor, because they are useless
each without the other" When a
plant ceases to be remunerative, it
must be shut down. No miracle will
keep it running Indefinitely at a loss.
But then the employe is out of work.
He sees, not far ahead, the prospect
of suffering for himself and his fam
lily, or removal to some more favored
land. Even if he is able to persuade
some crack-brained enthusiast or
some coldly selfish politician to vote
him a support at the public expense
under compulsion Of law, neither can
that last forever. Sooner OF later all
outside resources are exhausted.
Capital must insist upon its fair re-
enumeration or labor must insist upon
a fair wage and no more, in the wide
lists of the open world. Back Of both,
as behind most of the great move
ments and achievements of the race,
stands the stern and compelling fig
ure of death, their final umpire.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
PEACE DAY
IS FAVORED
Senate Passes Resolution Setting
Aside February II.

Senator Allen in an excellent speech
set forth feelingly in the senate yes
terday, the motives behind peace day.
The bill providing for the creation Of
February II, was recalled and in its
place Senator Bronson introduced a
concurrent resolution incorporating
the features of that bill.
Senatorial oratory vas uncorked in
a moment when Senator Leutz op-
posed the plan because he thought it
was hypocratical. AS long as this
nation sells implements of war to
%belligerents, he maintained, we should
not pray for peace.
When Senator Allen referred to
England as the mother country in
a historic sense only, this too brought
Senator Leutz to his feet, but before
the resolution went to a vote the ma
tionality feeling had been quoted ana
the resolution passed with q ayes
and 21 hayes.
The resolution provided that Feb.
II be illegal holiday and that at noon
for the space of five minutes, the
wheels of industry cease while the
centenary of peace between English
speaking nations be celebrated. The
signing of the treaty Of Client is the
specific event to be celebrated.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
DANBURY CASE,

Economists differ as to the probable
results of the Danbury case, in which
a local hatters' union was held liable
for some $4,000 900 damages for de-
claring a boycott on certain products
of non-union labr.
Some point out that it was the at
titude of the courts that created the
labor party in England. Mr.. Comp
ers admits that he is at a loss to tell
what the effect of the decision will
be on his organization except that it
will not have any colciliatory inlu.
ences.
The burden of the judgment upheld
by the federal supreme court falls up.
on the 1856 strikers and under the Con-
necticut law individual liability is i'm.
posed. Homes and savings of many
union members will be wiped out, un.
less the national organization of fed
Grated labor comes to the rescue.
In its final application, the decision
creates sympathy for the unfortu-
mates, but the principles it lays down
cannot be coltroverted. To legalize
boycott, opens up an avenue of black
mail and reprisal not in sympathy
with our free institutions and the
principles of personal freedom and
privilege set down il our constitution.
There should be absolute equality of
capital and labor before the law.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
IN FAVOR Of
POLITICAL PARTY
Non-P Partisan Legislature Does
Not Meet With Approval D.,
of the House.

H. B. No. "a, Everson, providing for
the non-partisan nomination and elec-
ton of members of the legislative as
semIb4y and all elective county officers,
created quite a warm discussion on the
floor of the house yesterday afternoon.
That bill, among others, was being
considered by the committee OF the
whole house,
The minority report of the commit
tee on elections and election priVil-
eyes recommended that all reference
to candidates for the legislative as
sembly be striker out, thus leaving
the bill to provide for the n~on-partisau
election of elective county officers
only.
Mr.. Converse stated that he favor
ed the bill as recommended for pas
sage in the minority report as it would
take politics out of the county elec-
tons.
Treadwell Twichell arose in de-
Tense of the present system Of elect
ing county officers, %contending that
partisan politics were to be desired.
He said in part: 81 am very strongly
partisan. l am a Republican because,
of the different creeds that are offered
here, only one appeals to me at all. I
don't believe there is any more eff
cheney in a Democratic administration
in this state than there is in using
a potato digger to cut hay There
must be some cohesion between good
men if they wish to accomplish any
thing and for this reason parties are
essential"
l.. N. Torson of Pierce, the Demo-
cratic choice for speaker of this
house, expressed his appreciation Of
the remarks of Mr.. Converse and re.
marked that I'VE must select not men
who are the best for any office but
men who are the best in our party
as things are now He stated that
patriotism was above ~partisanship
but that he would not ask that parties
be forgotten when it came to the great
issues, such as the tariff, and others.
Treadwell Twichell again arose to
state that men belonged to parties
for the same reason that they belong
ed to certain churches, that the church
too had its creeds. Mr.. Converse said
that if this bill vas enacted into a
law it would not initiate against, the
<Republican party of this state.
A motion that further action on the
bill be indefinitely postponed at this
time prevailed.
The committee of the whole also dis
cussed the following bills and recon-
mendedl that they do pass as amend
ed:
H. B. No. 81, Dixon, providing that
estray notices be published in a GER
tain position in the official estray
paper.
H. B. No. 81, Everson, relating to
the removal Of officers, includes city
commissioner, justices of the peace
and police magistrates.
H. B. No. s, Noyes, cleaning and dis
injecting of live stock cars.
H. B. No. 81, L. L. Twichell, relat-
ing to authorizations used in lad de-.
scription taxation proceedings.
A. M. Thompson of Minot presided
as chairman.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19

the present valuation few of this gen.
Grafton will live long enough to see
one-eighth of one mill yield enough to
provide adequate terminal facilities
for the farmers of the state.
There is no hostility to the farmers
movement, but the Equity Co.opera-
tive exchange can hardly expect the
state to finance it's needs in the shape
Of terminal facilities. If there is leg
islation of a general nature necessary
to assist the Equity society in fight
ing evils at terminal points, it will
find the legislature and the admins.
tration more than willing to assist.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
Three HOUSE BILLS
PASSED YESTERDAY

Three house bills were passed yes
terday afternoon, all of them receiv-
ing a practically unanimous vote.
They were House Bills No. 81, 40 and
SO.
H. B. No. 81, introduced by Mr..
Singer, as amended and passed, pro.
vides that in counties of $1,000, 900
valuation a small tax can be levied for
county fairs.
H. B. Nof 40, introduced by Mr.. Nc.
MILAN, provides that justices of the
peace may be paid for the first day
of any trial.
H. B. No. so, introduced by Mr..
Thompson of Sargent, amends the
present law so that the county com.
missioners shall appoint the plysi.
clan member of the county health
board.
Senate Bill No. 9 also passed the
house yesterday. 1t fixes the penal.
ties for false statements or entries.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
BOARD OF CONTROL RIGHT.

Whether it is right for the farmers
to own their own terminal elevators
or wise business policy to maintain
a selling agency, are not at issue in
the report of the board OF control
made to the legislature yesterday.
Neither are these questions before
the members of the House or Senate
The entire question resolves itself
into the wisdom of the state launch
ing into the grain business with the
tax payers money as capital.
1t is the farmers privilege to pur.
chase terminal elevators, operate CO.
operative sales agencies and elevat-
ors at primar markets. The Tribune
believes hearth in all those endeav-
ors and wishes their success, but it
does oppose the state entering the
grain business, because such action
will only be fraught with failure.
Aside from the general business
wisdom of the proposed venture, the
state Is not financially able at this
time to take on additional obligations.
Never before was the practice of
economy more imperative than now.
Under a recent constitutional
amendment, the state was empowered
to establish and maintain elevators
at terminal points. Two years ago
the state legislature created by law
a mill levy for several years to create
a fund to build such elevators. Upon
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
COMMITTEES
REPORT BILLS
Many of the House Committees
are Now Hard at Work
on Referred Bills,

Many committees reported in on a
number CT bills yesterday in the house,
a great many of the bills being &C.
commended for the graveyard, or in
the words of the committees ''furth-
Ell action on these bills be indefinitely
postponed"
The committee on education report
ed House Bill No. s for passage when
amended. This bill has to do with
the leasing of school rooms and school
buildings and equipment by boards of
education of special school districts
in certain cases. 1t was introduced
by Mr.. Torfin.
This committee also recommended
that H. B. No. 96 do pass. This bill
was introduced by Mr.. Purcell and
provides for raising the. bonded in
~debtedness Of Fargo school district
to $160,000 without a vote. Hereto
fore it has been limited to $4,000 and
this increase is desired in connection
with the building of a new school
house.
School and Public Lands.
The committee on school and public
lands recommended for passage as
amended H. B. No. 81. This bill was
introduced by Mr.. Sinclair, and pro-
vides for The sale of school lands ana
reduces the interest rate to not less
than 5 per cent.
The committee on charitable insti-
tutions recommended that H. B. No.
66 do pass as amended. This bill
was introduced by MIR. Everson and
provides for the inspection of all pub
lie and private hospitals, reformator-
les, houses of detention, converts, asy-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
TAX PROBE
IS FAVORED
Committee will Give Favorable
Report on Martin
Resolution.

A favorable report will be made TO-
day by the committee on taxes n
tax laws on Senator Martins resotu
ton to ascertain the amount of prop
erty placed on the tax rolls 10y the
tax commission and at what expense
to the state.
The commission appeared before the
committee to give this information up
on invitation of the committee, but
it was decided to report favorably on
the resolution and let a joint commit
tee Of the senate and house DO the
work, if it were deemed advisable.
Senate Bill No. &C., providing for
an excise tax of fiftieth of one
per cent on authorized capital OF
foreign corporations was recommended
to pass. ,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
AMENDMENTS
ARE KILLED
Five Proposed Constitutional
Amendments Clicked Off by
Committee.

Five bills proposing to amend the
constitution of the state were KILLED
by the house state affairs committee
yesterday afternoon, when it reported
that action on House Bills 5, 50, SO,
81, and Is be indefinitely postponed
and the report was adopted. All five
Of the bills were fathered by Repre-
sentative Nels r. Hedalen of Walsh
county. .
H. B. No. 5 was a concurrent reso-
luton for the amendment of sections
p, 80, SO, and IS of the constitution,
so as to change the term of state SEN
ators to eight years, representatives
to four years and providing for reg
ular sessions Of the legislative as
sembly each four years.
H. B. No. 50 was a concurrent reso-
luton for an amendment to section
81 of the constitution so as to make
the term of office of supreme court
judges of the state eight years.
H. B. No. "a was a concurrent res
olution for an amendment to section
80 of the constitution SO as to change
the term of office of the secretary Of
state, state auditor, treasurer, super
intendent of public instruction, COM
missioner of insurance, railroad COM
missioners, attorney general and COM
missioner of agriculture and labor to
four years.
H. E. No. SO was a concurrent reso-
luton for an amendment to section
173 of the constitution 50 as to change
the term of office of all county Off
GERS to four years.
H. B. No. is was a concurrent reso-
luton for an amendment to section
Il of the constitution so as to change
the term of office Of governor to four
years, no person to be eligible for
more than one consecutive term.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
Forecast.
EDUCATORS AS FlNANClERS.

When the Tribune began to call at
tention to certain educational prob
lens, it's qualifications to discuss
them were sharply challenged by sew
eral prominent pedagogues. In let
tiers received by the editor, the infer
ence was plain that these subjects
could best be handled by the educat-
ors themselves.
The Tribune takes the position
squarely that the problem facing the
state today as regards it's educational
institutions is merely a business one,
and must be settled by the legislators
with as little interference on the part
of the faculties of the various insti-
tutions as is possible.
Those interested in the solution of
the matter and the ability of the edu-
Gators to remedy the situation should
read the article appearing elsewhere
in the Tribune.
If the plan backed by the education
al lobby of the state had gone through
unhampered, the common school fund
would have lost to the amount of
$741, 900. If the institutions had ig'
nored the payment Of interest which
they would have done, of course, be-
cause their interest and income were
essential to maintain the institutions,
the loss would have been up to the
maturity Of these bonds, something
like $1,300,000.
There are still outstanding of these
bonds $12O,O 900 which the state must
meet eventually. They are all due
in 1921 and charged to the institu'
tons as follows: Agricultural col
lege, $4,000; University, $4,000, and
Reform school, $4,000.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
price of oil and gasoline will go down

price of oil and gasoline will 60 down
one-half a cent per gallon.
The state was deluded with the
idea it was taxing the oil companies,
but the tax was merely added to the
price of the commodity. OF course
a small inspection fee is necessary as
a police regulation, but when the
state seeks to raise revenue by such
measures, it merely shifts the burden
upon the tax payer.
Now that there is such a demand to
tax all forms of property, it might be
we'll to investigate who pays the tax.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
Three Bills ARE
PASSED in SENATE

i. Three bills were passed by the
senate Yesterday, senate bills, No. IA,
q and g.. 1t is provided that attor-
neys practicing in county courts with
increased jurisdiction shall be allowed
reimbursement and taxed as a part
of the costs the same sums as pro-
vided in Section S445 of the revised
codes of 1905.
Senate bill No. p provides a slight
change relating to payment and period
of redemption from execution sales.
Bill No. 81 merely provides for
changes in procedure in county courts.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
WHO PAY THE TAX?

Fond dreams of the tax specialist
are constantly being shattered by &C
tual facts. A case in point. Recent
ly the supreme court held that the
oil inspection fees imposed by the
state were too high and they must
be reduced to cover the actual cost OF
the inspection.
Now ome the Standard Oil com
pany with the announcement that the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
At FAIR

San Francisco, Jan. 1S.-A postof-
fee will. be maintained for the con-
venience of exhibitors in the palace
of mines and metals at the Panama
Pacific International exposition, &C
cording to an announcement made to.
day by the postal authorities.
Those who are in doubt as to what
their addresses will be, may have
their mail addressed in care of "Mod-
ell Postotfice, Panama Pacific Inter
national exposition where they can
call for it or from which it will be
delivered.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
HERRMANN.HAFNER NUPTIALS.

Word has been received here of the
marriage, on January 6, of Miss Emma
J.. Hermann, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adam Hermann. and Mr.. Rich
aru X. Hafner, who will be at home
at iceland after February 1.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-19
NEW HOME

Darlington, N. D., Jan. 1S.-The boil.
ing over Of the heating plant in Robt.
Pryor's fine new home Monday NORM
ing caused a damage tc the building
of several hundred dollars. A BIZ, fire
had been built in the furnace.