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MONTANA COMMISSION
CRITIClZES RAILROADS
DepIores Alleged Practice OF Delay
ing Settlement of Claims-To APP
peal to Next Legislature.

Helena.-In a formal statement the
Montana railroad commission raps a
policy 1t states the railroads have
adopted of holding up the claims Of
all parties, which have been filed since
Sept. /, 1915, until after July l, 1916.
1t states it will lay the facts before
the legislature next winter. The state
ment in part follows:
Complaint has been made to the
board of railroad commissioners that
the Great Northern Railway company
has SEN out letters to parties who
have filed claims, covering shipments
of grain, to the effect that all claims
moving after Sept. 1, 1915, will be held
in allegiance and no claims will be paid
until July /, 1916, after which time
the company will tabulate the claims
and will be in a position to form an
intelligent opinion regarding their
merits.
"We understand other roads in Mon
tana are pursuing the same policy.
"In the opinion of the board, it Ia
impossible to imagine any justification
for such a course.
1.-THE legislature has not given the
commission any authority over such
matters, but this policy seems to be
so unfair that the commission takes it
upon itself to call the attention of the
public to the matter, and will lay the
facts before the next legislature"
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Mrs. Mary Jane Sunday, mother OF
Billy Sunday, noted evangelist, died
at the latters home in Winona Lake
Ind, recently.
Fifteen hundred Sioux Indians in
South Dakota have offered to enlist
In the United States army in the case
OF war with Mexico.
st. Louis was selected as the 1871
convention city of the Associated Ad-
vertising Clubs of the World, during
their meeting at Philadelphia.
Four persons were killed when a
passenger train collided with an au-
tomobile driven by DR.. R. H. Johnson
on the railroad crossing, near Day.
export, la.
Vance C. Mccormick, chairman or
the democratic national committee,
assumed charge of the New YORK
headquarters. Western headquarters
will be established in Chicago instead
of Denver.
Charles e. Hughes, republican pres
1dential nominee, announced at the
end of an interview with Theodore
Roosevelt, at New York, that he and
the former president were in com
plete accord"
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Deery, their
two children, and Peter Howe, all of
Darlington, Wis, were instantly killed,
when their automobile, in which they
were riding, was struck by a fast pas
senger train neal Dubuque, la.
By a vote of 81 to Is the progress
national committee, at a meeting in
Chicago, went on record as being OPP
posed to putting a third ticket in the
field, and endorsed Charles E.
Hughes for president. Thus the bull
moose practically went out of exist
ence as a national political organiza-
ton.
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Big Winter Wheat Yield Seen.

Roundup.-A fall of more than two
inches of rain during the month of
June has placed winter wheat and
certain other crops in Musselshen
county beyonA the danger point from
drouth, and a heavy yield is prac-
tically assured. Destruction by hail
over small areas in the Wheaton and
Flatwillow districts is the only
satisfactory feature of the situation
but losses will be largely recompensed
by insurance. Winter wheat is head
ing, and while the straw will be short
er than usual, the heads are coming
plump.
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Friends Give Butler A mount"

Helena.-The announcement made
recently by DR.. w. j. Butler, state vet.
erinerian, that he was going to or
ganize a rough riders squadron, with
the idea of offering it to the govern
ment if it's services were needed, in
duced some of his Miles City friends,
and he has a whole lot of them, to pre-
sent him with a cavalry mount, sent
by express to the state capital. The
mount is a toy goat and on the crate
in which it was shipped were a num-
Der of humorous inscriptions.
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Sunshine Brings Out Crops.

DilIon-Crops in the vicinity of Dill
Ion were never in better shape than
they are at the present time, due to
the warm weather. The long cold
epeli east a dark shadow and farmers
were fearful that crops would be dam
aged but at the present time every
thing In In excellent condition. While
the season has been somewhat back
ward, o long period OF favorable wealth
or ~ now predicted which will mean
that the banner crops Of 1915 will
hsys every sAepcs Of being equallsd
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Pioneer Montana Prospector Suicides.

Ringling.-First tieing a rope about
his waist and then fastening It TO a
bridge ACROSS Sixteen.Milc creek, Win.
field Scott, a pioneer Montana progpec.
tor, aged about 10, drank carbolic acid
and threw himself into the stream
meeting a tragic death. His body was
found floating beneath the bridge and
sti1i suspended by the rope. Scott
was around Helena earlier this year
where he prospected In the Scratch
Gravel hills. He had lived in this
ststs more than half q cepturx.
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A conference renort on the rural
credits bill was adopted by the house
313 to IL. 1t now goes back to the
senate and then to President Wilson.
Without debate the senate passed
the general pension bill a~ppropriating
$15S, 000, 900. The measure was called
UP and disposed of in less than two
minutes.
President Wilson in being urged to
press for passage a proposed uniform
divorce constitutional amendment
now resting in the house judiciary
committee.
The senate agreed TO the confer
ence report on the good roads bill ap-
| propriating $685. 200, 900 during the
next five years for cooperation with
the states in road building.
At the request of Representativ.
Copley of Illinois, progressive, the
house ordered printed in the Congress
sionel Record the letter of The7dore
Roosevelt declining the progressive
nomination for president.
Members Of congress who jcin the
national guard in the federal service
will lose their pay while with the col
ors, but retain their seats in congress,
according to a report agreed upon by
a house judiciary subcommittee.
Identical bills, providing that home
steaders called into service with the
National guard shall not be consider
ed as absent from their homesteads
during the period of such service
were introduced in the house by Rep
resentative Stout and Senator Walsh
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Strike Agitators Are Jailed.

Hibbing, Mimi, July 3.-Arrest OF
Eve strike leaders here on charges OF
assault and melting Eiot marked the
beginning of a new and vigorous policy.
by the authorities. The men under
arrest, unable to furnish bail of $1,000
each, are in Jail. Four hundred strik-
ers gathered outside of the station in
the night, but were kept moving BY
policemen, and there were no signs
Of disorder.
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Is Father Of Three euardsmen.

Sidney.-Soren Peterson, a farmer
living near the father of three honor
of being the father of three members
of Company L of the state militia,
which is being made ready for a trip
to Mexico in Helena. Despite the
fact that the loss of the help on he
farm his summer would inconvenience
Peterson, he urged all of the boys to
go.
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Mo+orman Killed In Mine.

Butte.-James Mathews, q years
old, married, a motorman In the 5000
level of the Spectator mine, was kill
ed when in some unaccountable man.
ner he fell from his motor and was
dragged about IS feet. He received
a bad cut on the left side of the head
and other minor injuries.
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Body of Homesteader Found.

Lewistown.-John Fink, 20 years of
age has been brought in from Roy,
charged with the murder of Fred Gill
lis, a ho~mesteader, aged %, residing
Is miles from Roy. The decedent was
from Mound City, Mo-, and was highly
thought of. Fink had been working
for him.
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Third MissouIa Woman Runs.

Billings.-Missoula county furnishes
the third woman candidate for a state
office In the history of Montana as
well as the first two. Mrs. Lusk was
a delegate to the Republican national
convention: another Missoula woman
seeks the county t~reasurership and
Nellie A. Thompson seeks to represent
that county in the legislature.
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One Dead. rwentv hurt In Storm

Wibaux.-J. M. Bassett of Eldorado,
Kan, was killed and twenty others
were injured here when a terrific
storm wrecked the tents and stands
of a carnival company where they
had been employed. Windows every
where in this district were broken and
small buildings were overturned.
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Munitions Burned; U. s. investigates,

Munitions Burned; U. S. investigates
Seattle, Wash, July 3.-Oficers Of
the coast artillery reserve corps and
police have begun an investigation of
the fire which destroyed the Oriental
dock here with it's $500, 900 worth of
goods. The principal loss was sus.
tanned by the United States govern
ment, which had huge quantities Of
ammunition and other military sup.
plies in the dock warehouse. During,
the fire an eight inch shell exploded
and Q fragment struck and instantly
killed an unidentified IL year old boy
sfapding II the crowd
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GENERAL.

William r. Wilcox of New York,
has beer named chairman of the re-
publican national committee.
Tom Sharkey, former heavyweight
prizefighter, filed a petition in bank
ruptcy in the United States district
court in San Francisco.
Sixty-eight teachers and district
superintendent of the Chicago city
schools, among them all the active
officers of the Chicago Teachers fed
Grafton, were dropped by the Board
of Education.
Theodore Roosevelt is preparing to
offer a division of approximately
10000 men to the United States gov
eminent, accompanied by his applica-
ton for a commission as major gen.
eral, in the event of war with Mexi-
co. and a call by the president for
volunteers.
Governor Hiram Johnson of Califor-
MIA, one of the leaders of the progress
sive party, has announced that he
will support Charles E.. Hughes, re.
publican nominee for president of the
United Slater.
Because they refused to take 49,
oath of allegiance to the United States
and consent to fight on the Mexical
border, five ~privates in Company L o
Council Bluffs, Ia, were stripped O
their uniforms and drummed out O
camp in disgrace at Des Moines, la.
Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter t
the progressive national COMMITTEES
declined to accept the presidents
nomination Of the party and strongl
urged the bull moose organization
support Charles E. Hughes.
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TO AID MONTANA OFFICIALS
Retail Liquor Dealers Favor Strict Law
Enforcement,

Enforcement.
Helena.-Retail liquor dealers of the
state, in convention here, pledged them
selves both as an association and as
individuals to uphold the laws and Co
operate with officials in seeing that
the laws were strictly observed. Fur
thermore, the association went on rec
ord as being opposed to playing parti-
San politics or in any way trying to
influence voters. .
The association decided that the
next meeting would be held at Great
Falls October 2 and 5, 1916. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: Presi-
dent, M. M. Sullivan, Butte; vice
president, Sid Willis, Great Falls; SEQ
rotary, ]. P. Mckinley, Billings.
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Victim of Montana Feud Dead.

Butte.-Mike Morvosch, victim of a
shooting at Meaderville, Mont, is
dead. 1t is believed by the authorities
Morvosch was the slayer of Deputy
Sheriff James Pollock al Houghton,
Mich, last year. Morvosch suffered
six bullet wounds in a general fight
between two gangs in a fued in which
knives we're used when all the ammu-
milton had been fired away.
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Mrs. G. A. Custer Foretold sIauqhte,

MITE q. IA NUstST FUTCIUIu 81
Billings.-In a letter written before
the Carrizal massacre in Mexico, and
read here at exercises commemorating
General Clusters last stand, Mrs. Geo.
A. Custer, widow of the Indian fighter,
foretold the slaughter of American
troops by the Carranzistas.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-07-07

Seven companies of United States
coast artillery stationed in the vicin-
ity of San Francisco have been or
dered to the California border.
The Argentine republic has sold $50
machine guns to the Carranzista gov
eminent, according to reports receiv-
ed by the Ell Paso agent of a Mexico
City bank.
American military authorities at FL
Paso are taking steps that would rem
der them practically independent OF
Mexican railroads for the t~ransporta-
ton of troops and supplies in case of
war.
Vera Cruz is filled with refugee
Americans awaiting opportunity to
sail for the United States. Every train
arriving there brings from fifty to 100
men, women and children who expect
to embark on transports for America.
The United States consulate at
Torreon, Mexico, was demollshed
June IS by a mob of 5000 civilians,
led by the mayor of the city, and a
Carranza army band, according to re-
ports.
Efforts toward Latin-American
mediation in the Mexican crisis, ia
vored by Carranza officials, collapsed
without having reached the stage OF
a formal proposal to the United
States.
Mexican soldiers looted numerous
business concerns and homes in No
gales, Sonora, among other things a
shipment of silver bullion, valued at
s25, 900, being taken from the offices
of Wells-Fargo & Co.
officials Of the Mexico Northwest
ern railway were notified by military
authorities in Juarez that no further
shipments consigned to General Per
shing's troops at Casas Grandes would
be allowed to be transported over the
road.
President Wilson's demand on Cen
eral CarranZa for the release OF he
twenty-three American prisoners ia
ken by the de facto troops during the
fight at Carrizal and held in Chihuahua
~penitentiary, met with compliance by
Ca1ranza and the men were released
General Pershing in removing MS
base from Namiquipa to Colonia Dub
Ian, has checkmated any attempt oil
Carranzistas to annihilate one OF
more of the separate camps strung
along the former line of commun1ca'
tons.
William Packer and his wife, Alice
married but FIVE months. and belong
ing to a family well known alons
the Texas and New Mexican border
were killed in their ranch home
southwest of Hachita, N. NJ, after
desperate fight with Mexican bandits
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Copper Mines Profit From War.

Butte.-Net proceeds in consequence
of copper war orders for the Anaconda
Copper Mining company for year end
ing June /, are s14,3 1863 1881, an increase
of s7,535.72 over the preceding period.
North Butte's earnings were s1,229,-
339, an increase of nearly a million
over the preceding period.
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Report Shows Montana's Growth.

Bflings.-A report issued by a CON-
mercial agency indicates that Montana
has 1890 business houses, as against
10, 1000 two years ago. This growth is
in keeping with the remarkable in
crease In population.
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CITY HONORS MEMORY OF HILL
Great Falls Holds Impressive Service
Mcdowell Speaks.

Mcdowell Speaks.
Great Falls.-In spite of threatening
weather, a crowd that taxed the capa-
city of a local theater gathered at the
memorial services in honor of the late
James J. Hill, held under the auspices
of the Great Falls Commercial club.
Lieutenant-Governor w. w. Mcdowell
delivered the principal address.
The gathering included all classes
and creeds and was most representative
of the city for which Mr.. Hill did so
much.
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fStSV0t SoyS 1b
from the war office.
London, July 3.-The supreme eff
fort of the allies began with n of
the greatest Anglo-French gains on,
the western front since the German
retreat from the gates of Paris.
Two hours after British troops drove,
forward, they had captured 16 miles of
German forward trenches north of the,
Somme, the war Office announced In a
brief bulletin.
French Cooperate.
French troops, on the British right,
struck at the same hour. The British
war office announced that the French
made equally satisfactory" gains leav-
ing to General Joffre the honor Of an-
nouncing the full extent of the French
successes.
At several points the Anglo-Frenchi
troops are attacking the main second
line, where the German troops shatter-
ed by the furious onslaught, are maxi
ing a desperate stand.
Attack on 2o-MiIe Front.
The A~nglo-French advance has
reached its greatest depth along a IS.
mile front extending from a point
north of Albert to a point southeast
of that village. The A~nglo-French
forces are driving eastward in the gen.
eral direction of Cambria.
The British attack was made on a.
20-mile front north Of the Somme. aft.
er five days of one of the most ter-
rife bombardments the world has aver
known.
Allied Casualties Light. 2
With German advanced trenches
firmly held, the British are pressing
forward against the second line works.
The latest dispatches to the war office
the utmost violence on both the Brit
ish and French fronts.
Many prisoners have been taken.
Fragmentary dispatches from the front
report the allied casualties have been
light.
On the remainder Of the British front
raiding parties continue to harass the
Germans, penetrating enemy defenses
at many points, inficting losses and
taking prisoners.
Bombardment Concentrated.
The artillery bombardment Of the
last five days was concentrated with q
degree of fury and a number of guns
unprecedented in the region of Albert
and the Somme, with the French CO.
operating to the south.
Reports received from the front five
| hnt,ru aftop fhn n~Nak1naA pri%Srh n~A
French offense was launched showed
that the Allies had captured La Bois-
ellie, Serre and Montauban, and Curul
and Faviere woods.
The fighting has reached the main
second line.
French Mortare Destructive.
These reports show that the French
and British, at the points of their fur.
thest advances, have broken through
for more than FIVE miles beyond the
first German trenches. Montauban Ia
6L miles east of the old British front.
and Curlu wood Is six miles south.
east of Albert.
The British batteries, now almost in.
Vulnerable, took turns at smashing the
German d%efenses, destroying communi'
cation trenches and blowing up ammu.
milton depots. New trench mortars.
particularly destructive, tore away
wire entanglements, broke down para
pets and opened the way for men with
rifles and bayonets. Giant 15.inch
guns prevented the Germans from
bringing up supports. wrecking every
thing within range.
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WASHINGTON

The senate military committee
killed the house resolution appro-
priating 81, 900 for the relief of de-
pendents of national guardsmen.
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WAR NEWS.

The Russians have conquered the
whole of the Austrian crownland of
and the Austro-Hungarians
are making their way toward the
Carpathians passes, London reports.
Interest In the expected grand Of
fensive of the allies has shifted tenn
porarily in London military circles
due to the situation in the Balkans,
with the revival of reports that Ru-
mania is preparing to join the allies.
The Russians have advanced far
Their into Bukowina in pursuit of Aus
trian forces, but farther north, in East
Galicia and Volhynia, their progress
apparently has been arrested by the
violent attacks and counter-attacks of
the Teutonic allies.
Continuing the route of offensive
against the Russians in Volhynia, the
Germans have captured the village of
Linweaka, to the west of Sokul, and
also have taken positions to the south
of the village. Vienna reports that
further Russian attacks near Kuty, in
Bukowina, have been repulsed.
Deplorable conditions prevailed In
Syria, said the Marquis of Crewe in
the British house OF Lords in a state
ment dealing with the Arab revolt
against the Turks. He asserted the
Turks were virtually starving the in
habitants of that district.
Turing to the offensive in Trentino,
and across the border in Italy, where
they were driven recently by the
Austrians, the Italians have forced
the Austrians to a general retrea,
along the entire front.
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Many Found "Unfit."

Mastering of the Second Regiment
into service of the United States has
been completed, two carloads of sup
plies were received from San Francisco
and officers Of the medical corps are
rapidly proceeding with the physical
inspection of the officers and men.
From 10 TO Is per cent of the person
mel of the regiment will be rejected
because Of physical disability and mus
tered out Of the service. One company
lost 81 men, another IL, and another
16, one four and n one.
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DRIVE BEGINS WITH BIGGEST
ANGLO.FRENCH GAIN SINCE
GERMAN RETREAT FROM
GATES OF PARIS.
DEFENSES PENETRATED
ON SIXTEEN MILE 'FRONT.'
Teuton First Line Positions Shattered
by Furious onslaughts-French ADJ |
vance simultaneously and Report
Equally Satisfactory" Gains
still Advancing.

Berlin, July ~3.-Repeated British
and French attacks at many points on,
the German front were Everywhere res
pulsed" says an official statement
from the war office. :
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NEWS EPlToME THAT CAN SOON
re COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign intelligence Con.
Gensed Into Two n Four
b Line Paragraphs.
MEXICAN TROUBLE.

Seven companies of United States
coast artillery stationed in the vicin-
ity of San Francisco have been or
dered to the California border.
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William r. Wilcox of New York,
has been named chairman of the re-
publican national committee.
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A conference renort on the rural
credits bill was adopted by the house
313 to IL. 1t now goes back to the
senate and then to President Wilson.
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Tom Sharkey, former heavyweight
prizefighter, filed a petition in bank
ruptcy in the United States district
court in San Francisco.