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Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
POOR FARMING CAUSES
FAILURES, REPORT SAYS
oeep Flowing and Thorough Cultiva-
tor Conducive to Agricultural Sue
cess Montana Examiners Find.

Ihe semi-monthly crop report issued
Dy the Banking Corporation of Mon
tana at Helena says in part:
Generally speaking, crop conditions
all over the state remain satisfactory.
There are, however, scattered spots Of
not promising territory, mostly in the
eastern and east central part of the
state. One of the examiners reports
nat most of the half crops or crop
failures in his territory are conspicu-
ious on account of poor farming and
insufficient cultivation. Other reports
or prospective losses mention a short
age OF moisture in some of the lower
districts, and everything looking good
on the higher benches. AS a matter
OF fact. fields of grain that are not
maturing properly seem to demonstrate
very s~trikingly the necessity of deep
blowing and thorough cultivation"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
WASHINGTON

The senate adopted Senator Under
woods resolution to appropriate
$4,000 for relief of flood sufferers in
Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Mississippi
and North and South Carolina.
September 9 is the date now being
considered by administration leaders
for adjournment of congress. All hope
of getting through by August 10, the
date fixed by the democratic senate
caucus. has been abandoned.
THE honest grape fruit end berry
basket bill" by Representa- i've Rea-
Wis of Nebraska, prescribing dimen-
sions for standard baskets fer inter
state shipment of grapes. small fruits
and berries, was passed by the house.
ut is a story of public authority
p~rostituted to private interests that is
hardly equaled by Colorado" declared
a report of the committee on indus.
trial relations, describing the strike
of Minnesota Mesaba range iron work
ers.
Democratic senators in caucus vot-
ed to postpone action on the immigra-
ton bill to the next session and then
adopted a resolution pledring the
majority to vote down any att mpt to
attach it as a rider to the child labor
bill. This action was taken 20 fore
stall a threatened attempt to defeat
the child labor bill.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
80 ENLIST FROM TOWN
OF BUT 200 POPULATION
citizens OF Saco, Montana, Give EXAM
pie OF Real Preparedness-Send
Soldiers to Foreign Lands.

Washington, d. C.-Gangway please,
and make a place on your Rand-McNal-
ly for the little town of Saco, Mont,
with a population of 200, as per the
1910 census report.
Saco has thirty-two of it's male citi-
zens serving with Company G, Second
Montana infantry, now on the border,
and another stalwart son serving at
Peking, China, as a member of the
United States Marine corps.
IF New York, Chicago, Philadelphia
could be induced to give their sons
In the same proportion" writes w. D.
Miller, editor of the Saco Independent
to the marine corps officials of this
city, we'd have some real prepared
ness"
But in the meantime Saco wants
to cast considerable shadow from its
new place in the sun.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
AusTRlANs ALONG RIVER sTRIPA
RAPIDLY BEING ouTFLANkEp
-5AYoNET ENCOUNTERS
DESPITE FLOODS.
LEMBERG Is MENACED
BY RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE
City ls On Direct Line of Advance
Hindenburg's Efforts So Far Are
Observation-Disclosures Start
Move to Capture German
Colony in East Africa.

London, Aug. S.-General Brussiloff.
commander-in-chief of the Russian ar
mics on the east front, is pressing his,
offensive against the Teutonic allies.
In northern Galicia, where the pas
sage of the river Sereth was recently
forced by the Russians along a wide.
front south of Brody. Petrograd re-
ports further advances for the Rus
SLAMS with the capture of strongly
fortified positions along the Sereth and
the Graberka.
The newly gained ground is in the
region of Zvyjin, Kostianiec and Rem.
ieuv, where the cars troops scored
marked successes. Fierce bayonet
encounters are going on in the Sereth.
river woods under the most difficult
weather conditions. A steady down
pour has turned the battlefield into a
swamp.
Austrians Unsuccessful.
The forward push of the Russians in
mis- sector not only is bringing them
closer to Lemberg on the direct line
OF advance but is pointed out by mill
tary critics as likely seriously to en-
danger the entire Austrian front along
the Stripa, to the south, which is rap
idly being outflanked.
Meanwhile the Austrians and Germans
under the supreme command of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg are attempt
ing to resume the initiative from Vol
hynia to Bukowina, but thus far their
efforts have been unable to check the
Russian advance.
Attack in East Africa.
General Louis Botha, premier of the
union of South Africa has arrived in
German East Africa to witness what
Is believed here to be the last phase
or operations against Germany's last
remaining colony. General Botha was
present at recent fighting north of
the German Central railway which re-
suited in a British occupation of the
lines at Kilimatinde and other points.
Meanwhile, with the occupation of
Ujiji by the Belgians and of Sadani
n other coast ports by the British.
the Germans apparently are afforded
only the opportunity corner of the
colony where the Portuguese, in their
East African possession, are awaiting
them.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
COUNTERFEIT COINS FOUND
Cache Uncovered BY Storm Sent to
Agents at Salt Lake.

Anaconda.-Chief Murphy SEN IS OF
the bad dollars washed out of a u
t~erfeiter's cache by the recent storm
to government agents at Salt Lake.
A special secret service man has been
working to get the counterfeiters who
made and passed this money, which
was first circulated in the intermoun-
tain country during the holidays. Sew
eral barber shops reported finding the
bad dollars in the registers at the
end of the days business and once
the bad coins got into circulation it
was a case of passing them on, when
the fraud was discovered.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
Sheridan "Dry" Fight is Failure,

Helena.-Word has been received
here that the county commissioners
of Sheridan county denied the petition
for a local option, election, it being
found that the petition was short 200
of the 1900 names OF tax-paying elect
ors required. The fight for a local or
tion ballot has been proceeding in
Sheridan county for nearly a year and
at n time it was believed enough
names would be secured. ATTORNEY r
B. Nolan of Helena represented the
drys In the procedure.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
Attacks Pesslmistic Crop Reports

Helena.-"I believe these pessimistic
reports regarding Montana crop condi-
lions are gotten up to affect the grain
market" remarked II. F. Alps OF the
local weather bureau. Our observers
make their reports from first-hand In
spections and their statements are to
be credited sooner than the press re.
ports OF amateur observers. who take
the word OF every traveller they see."
Thus he "hit In the head" the conflict
ing runners about Montana's 1915 crop
outlook.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11

b first United States army hospI.
TAI on wheels is under contract to be
built at Pullman, Ill.
A serum for eruptive typhus, the
disease which made such terrible raw.
ages in Serbia, has been discovered
at Paris.
The name of the Progressive party
Will go on the national ballot in the
fall election. Fifty members of tbs
anti-Hughes contingent of the Bull
Moose party, in conference at Indian.
apolis, declared unanimously for the
retention of the party solidarity.
The garment workers strike, which
has virtually paralyzed the women's
suit and cloak industry in New York
City for nearly four months, has been
settled.
Five persons lost their lives when
an automobile in which they were
Ab0AhS pAuuS6u owe a nlSu omDdQk
ment into the Missouri river near La
Neb.
Charles Evans Hughes, republican
candidate for president, declared him
self in favor of an amendment to the
granting women the right
to vote.
The total membership of the
knights of Columbus is now reported
to be 3S6.135, a gain of 141. SAC in
seven years. The organization has
S213,S62, $40 insurance in force, a gain
S46,410,S42 in the same period.
Property loss estimated at s25.0 900.
700 was caused by a series of explo- ]
of ammunition awaiting ship I
nent to the entente allies and stored
IN Black Tom island, a small strip of
and jutting into New York bay of
Jersey City.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
MONTANA CORN SHOW AT
MILES CITY IN DECEMBER
State Exhibition Expected to Surpass
All Previous Efforts-"Good Corn
Year" Responsible.

Miles City.-The dates of the state
corn show at Miles City have been set
for Dec. SO, preceding the corr show
OF the First National bank of st. Paul.
the dates of which are Dec. Ills. The
exhibits of the Miles City show will
doubtless be shipped bodily to st. Paul
as they were last year, the Miles City
show representing many counties in
Montana which send exhibits there.
This year is generally counted as a
good corn year." and the number of
ears displayed is expected to approach
10000, as there has been a large in
creas in acreage.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
YOUNG BOY SAVES TWO
GIRLS; ONE Is DROWNED
Montana Lad Exhausted by Strain of
Double Rescue Has Marrow Escape
Victim Only Sixteen.

Dillon.-While bathing with friends,
Dorothy Dunn, 6 years old, was drown.
ed. Fern Dunn and Ruth Wernick
were rescued by Smith Paddock a lad
IL years old.
After the double rescue the boy leap
ed back into the water and struck
out for Dorothy, but the tremendous
strain had Slapped his vitality and he
narrowly escaped drowning himself.
The girls had ventured into deep
water.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
OIL TRUST WINS LAND FIGHT
Standard Subsidiary Beats Independ-
ent Concern in Court.

Red Lodge.-The Midwest Oil COM
pany, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey, has won the
first legal battle over the dry Creek
Basin Oil field, near here.
An Injunction asked by the Produc-
ers' Oil company, an Independent con-
Germ, restraining the Midwest from
operating on ground to which the Pro-
ducers' company claims leases, has
been denied in the district court.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
Pope Plans Protest to GERMANY,

Pope Plans Protest to Germany.
Paris, Aug. S.-The pope, after q
careful study of the protest against the
deportation of inhabitants of northern
France, has decided to make a protest
to Germany, according to a news dis
patch. The protest was sent to the
pope by the bishop of Lille and the
archbishop of Rheims. 1t is stated hat
the pope will ask Berlin that al least
women and young girls be SEM back
to their homes and that he will public
ly sxpress his reprobation of the Ger.
man military authorities. II his protest
II ignored.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
OLD RAIL LINE FOR HIGHWAY
Butte Enthusiasts Would Take Over
Abandoned Project.

Butte.-The old Butte-to-Helena Ra-
pid Transit railway bed is to be the
basis for an auto boulevard between
Butte and Helena, if plans announced
here do not miscarry. Local road en-
thusiasts are arranging with the stock
holders of the rapid transit company
for a right of way. The road was pro-
jected years ago and the bed laid, but
the plan was abandoned for lack of
capital.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
WOULD SELL TO CONSUMERS
Montana Farmers Take New Step to
Eliminate Middleman,

Bfllings.-Another step by farmers
OF Montana to sell directly to consum-
ers has been taken by the Farmers
Exchange company of Yellowstone
county, which has announced plans for
the erection of a concrete warehouse
here. Cold storage will be provided
for meat fruit and vegetables, and
truck gardeners will be able to sell
their product six days in the week.
Motor truck delivery will be made by
the company.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11

Some eighty motor trucks laden
with supplies for the Pershing expedi-
ton, are mired down between Column
bus, N. NJ, and Colonia Dublan, Next
co. az a result of two cloudbursts.
Judges of the district courts
throughout the Mexican republic have
been named. Courts in the federal
district were opened. The others will
be opened as soon as possible.
Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs
Aguilar received the American note
accepting Mexico's proposal for COM
mission settlement of the border prob
lem and declared that the rejoinder
was satisfactory"
Preparation for a quick movement
of General Pershing's entire column
in Mexico is seen in the arrival at
Columbus, N. NJ, of new shipments
of motor truck and of a spl--AI train
Of truck drivers.
General Carranza is to retire as
first chief of the de facto government
OF Mexico at an early date and will
enter the field as a presidential can
didate at the forthcoming elections,
according to recent advices from
Mexico City.
An epidemic of ~dysentery has
broken out in the national guard
camps at Douglas, Ariz,, being partic-
ularly severe in the camp of the Sec
ond Montana infantry. More than
200 cases are said to exist in the reg
iment.
General Carl Malcotte, who arrived
In Mexico City a few days ago for a
conference with Minister of War Oh.
regon to plan concentration of forces
Tor Villas capture, declared he is de.
termined to make a quick job and to
take the bandit general at all cost"
Army officers along the border are
considering the problem of checking
the alarms Of militiamen on duty.
That the problem is a serious one is |
admitted, when cavalry, infantry and
motor detachments returned to El
Paso after a Wild-goose chase so
miles down the border. Instead of
running down bandits they ran down
only a f~ootless alarm.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
THREATEN NEWSPAPER PLANT
I~ncendiaries Attempt to Burn Helena
Building-Write Letters,

Helena.-The Helena Independent
announced incendiaries had attempted
to burn the building. after sending a
series of threatening letters. A lodg-
ing house next door was fired, appar-
emily with the Independent building
as the object of the incendiaries.
Guards have been placed about the
building at night.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
WANTS FEDERAL LOAN BANK
Helena Thinks Chances Are Excellent
For Success,

Helena, Mont.-Helena is going after
one of the twelve farm loan banks to
be established by the United States,
possibly throwing her support to st.
Paul If she fails herself. United
States Senator Walsh gave this city
the hint and Helena thinks the chances
are good to obtain a bank, because of
the tremendous demand for farm loans
In this section of the Northwest.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
WOMEN WALK FOR SUFFRAGE
Two Hikers Pass Through Butte At
ter. 1000 Mile Tram.

Butte.-Alice s. Burke and Neil
Richardson arrived here. after tramp
ing 1000 miles over the worst roads
In America" in their tour in the in
terests of the National association.
From New York they followed the
Atlantic seaboard to Florida, thence
to Texas and across to California, and
are On their return TO the metropolis.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
Shoots Self; Accounts Under Probe.

Billings.-Arthur Hall, cashier of the
Northern Pacific Railway company,
shot and fatally wounded himself here.
Although conscious, he was not expect
ed to live out the day. Hall, who
came here from Fort Dodge, Iowa,
and whose accounts were being ex-
amined by an auditor, declined to make
any statement regarding the shooting.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
"RiCHEST" TOWN RICHER.

" Hibbing, Aug. 8.-Assessment
=" figures given out by John C. East
y man, clerk of the township of
y Stuntz, give the township of which
v Hibbing, "the richest town in the
V world" is the center, a valuation
= of $121,1a4,as2, the greatest in its
. history.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11

that swept down the narrow valley
through which flows Big Barren creek,
In Claiborne county, Tennessee.
The salaries of 10000 employees OF
the Missouri Pacifc-Iron Mountain
railroad have been raised an average
Of 6 per cent.
Mayor William Thompson of Chi.
cago revoked the licenses of twenty
two saloons in the first step of a new
campaign to enforce the Sunday clos.
ing law.
Estimates Of the number of dead in
the forest fires of northern Ontario.
Canada, are put at 500 by refugees ar
irving at Toronto from the various
localities in the ire-swept zone.
y =
Striking employees of the three large
packing houses in East st. Louis. Ill.
voted to accept the concessions made
by he employers and to return to
work. About 1890 men are involved.
The total assets of the estate of J.
P1erpont Morgan, the financier, who
died in Rome, Italy, March 81, 1914,
exclusive of property outside New
York state, are fixed at $751; 4 ,O24 in
a report which has been filed with
the state comptroller.
The Louisiana state progressive con-
vention endorsed the nomination of
John M. Parker for vice president,
but failed to ratify the national com.
mittee's endorsement of Charles E.
Hughes, republican nominee for pres.
ident.
Sir Roger Easement, noted Irish.
man, was executed in the Pentonville
prison, London, having been convicted
by the British government of high
treason for his participation in the
recent Irish revolution.
y . ~
Publishers of daily newspapers In
Greater New York have decided to
decrease the number of pages in the r
morning. evening and Sunday issues
of 121 pages a week. The reduction
of SO many pages is a step to relieve
the newspaper situation which is re.
garded by the publishers as serious.
A great conf1agration at Petrograd,
Russia, destroyed a bridge across the
river Neva. twelve large steamers in
GLIDING several transatlantic liners
and the Putiloff gun works and other
establishments
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11

All persons entering or leaving
Germany hereafter must obtain spe.
cial permission from the German gov.
eminent. Such permission will he
granted only in cases of inevitable
necessities, in regard to which thor.
ough explanation will be required.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11

The capture during the month o.
July of more than $4,000 Russians Ia
announced by Austro- Hungarian army
headquarters in its statement of
August /.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
NEWS EPlToME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign Intelligence Con.
densed into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs,
MEXICAN TROUBLE.

Some eighty motor trucks laden
with supplies for the Pershing expedi-
ton, are mired down between Column
bus, N. NJ, and Colonia Dublan, Next
CO, as a result of two cloudbursts.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
GENERAL.

Fully sixty lives were lost In a flood
that swept down the narrow valley
through which flows Big Barren creek,
In Claiborne county, Tennessee.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
Many Unreserved Acres.

Though the oldest land office in Mon.
tana, there are still 1927, 302.88 unre-
served acres in this district open to
hIing, according to the report of the Of
hclais. By counties, this acreage is
situated as follows:
Beaverhead, t~,073,304; Broadwater,
I~63,s3s.92; Cascade, 1899; Deer
Lodge, 72.106; Gallatin, 12,547; Jefer.
son, 319, 1881; Lewis and Clark, 453..
oll.57; Madison, 40S,598; Meagher,
3l4,4lS; Park, 2,580.72; Powell, 1877
O86; Silver Bow, 139.252.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
COUNTIES ENTER
STATE CONTESTS
ARRANGE FOR EXHIBITS AT MON.
TANA'S GREATEST FAIR
PRIZES ARE OFFERED.
ON ABSENT VOTER STATUTE
Decision as to Whether Act Applies to
Militiamen and Other Citizens Out
side of State to be Made by
Attorney-GeneraI Soon.

Helena.
Already q counties have
that they will make exhibits at the
state fair this fall-the best fair ever
to be held in Montana-on appropria-
ions made by their county commits
sioners, under the law allowing such
appropriations up to the sun of 81, 900.
Now is the time for the other II
ties to plan their exhibits. 1t has been
demonstrated that $500 will provide
a prize-winning exhibit, if the money ia
spent upon the judicious collection of
materials, and a hustling, well-quali-
fed man is put in charge.
No county can afford to overlook
the state fair as the one great land.
agricultural and livestock advertising
agency in the state. The efforts Sec
rotary r. s. Skinner is making to ex-
eel former state fairs, and some of
them have been handles, will surely
make it the big noise.
The noise will be heard all over the
United States by land buyers and pros
pective settlers. They will be coming
here in thousands every year now for
some years, and counties that make ex-
hibits at the fair will have something
Immediately available and tangible to
attract their attention, and conclu-
slvely demonstrate what the farms of
the county will do. 1t will pay.
Montana's winnings at the Panama.
Pacific exposition at San Francisco. in
Guiding three grand prizes and many
medals, made the states splendid re-
sources and fertile lands known. State
fair exhibits will advertise counties.
For the best five sheaves of wheat
n one bushel of wheat the largest
and most valuable premium ever Of
fered by a state fair will be awarded.
big bull tractor worth $3.50. Every |
wheat farmer in the state ought to try
for this. Montana beat the world at
San Francisco with her wheat. It will
be some wheat that beats every
other exhibit in the state and takes
the bull tractor.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
New County Democratic.

New County Democratic.
south Central Montana is strong for
president Wilson and Governor Stew.
art, Ii. j. Calhoun, democratic state
committeeman from Saltwater u
says. Mr.. Calhoun, who is a prominent
business man OF Columbus, based his
prediction on first-hand observations
that he has made In that region for
the past several weeks. The Wilson
administration has met with general
favor In the new county, the Helena
visitor said, and the people down there
are going to turn out a handsome ms,
Jorfty for the president,
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11

Judges of the district courts
throughout the Mexican republic have
been named. Courts in the federal
district were opened. The others will
be opened as soon as possible.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-08-11
To Interpret VOTING Act.

whether the absent voter law ap-
plies to militiamen at the border and
other citizens of the state who are
without the boundaries of Montana will
probably be decided by the office of
the encouragement soon, according
to j. B. Poindexter, encouragement,
the use of the absent voters provision
will receive its first real test at the pri-
maries to be held next month, Mr..
~Poindexter said. Voters who make use
OF this law must obtain their ballots
from the clerk and recorder of the
county in which they are eligible to
vote and the marked ballots must be
in the hands of the judges before the
polls close.
This law is n of the very few such
laws on the statute books of the vari-
GUS states. Under the provisions of
the new law any person, legally quail
fed by registration to vote, who has
reason to believe that he or she will
De absent from the place where the
law entities them to vote may make
application either in writing or in per.
son to the county clerk for an absent
voters ballot. Such application must
be made at least 80 days prior to the
election.