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Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound would cure it. 1t helped both
the Change of Life and the tumor and
when ! got home / did not need the DOCTOR
I took the Pinkham remedies until the
tumor was gone, the doctor said, and 1
have not felt it since. / tell every one
how I was cured. If this letter will
help others you are welcome to use it."
Mrs. E. H. BEAN, 525 Joseph Avenue
Nashville, Tenn.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, q pure remedy containing the
extractive properties of good old FASH
toned roots and herbs, meets the needs
of woman's system at this critical period
of her life. Try it
If there is any symptom in your
case which puzzles you, write to
the Lydia Il. Pinkham Medicine
CO., Lynn, Mass.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
EATS LUNCH, THEN THROWS
JEWELS OUT WITH REFUSE
Passenger on G. N. Train Loses VaIu.
able Brooch - Telegram Starts
Search Resulting In Recovery.

Havre.-It nearly cost Mrs. James
Holland of this city a valuable diamond
brooch to eat a lap lunch on a Great
Northern train while en- route home
from the East.
The lunch vas eaten nea Culbert.
son and remnants of 1t thrown out Of q
car window. Some time later Mrs.
Holland missed her brooch, and failing
to find 1t in the seat. concluded 1t had
been thrown out the window with the
leavings Of lunch.
The train conductor was notified and
he wired back to Culbertson to start q
search for the brooch. Two hours later
a wire was received stating that the
jewelry had been recovered.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

The commissioners on uniform
state laws at Chicago voted unanl'
nous approval of the Torrens system
of land registration.
Infantile paralysis appears to be
spreading in New Jersey. The totai
number of places now affected in the
state is 205, the total number OF
cases being 2,163.
The loss of life from the tropical
storm which struck Corpus Christi,
Texas, and ten adjacent south Texas
counties late last week has been
placed at thirteen.
The New York Herald has reduced
the price Of it's weekday issue from
3 cents to 1 cent in New York city
and outlying metropolitan districts.
The reduction took effect on Tuesday,
August %.
Residents of Villisca and Montgom'
cry county, Iowa, are raising JULIUS az
mass meetings to continue the investl'
cation of the eight Villisca ak muir
ders Of the summer of 1912.
A. w. Garner, of Drapersville, Va,
was 80 years old before he ventured
to take a ride in an automobile, and
the car in which he took his first ride
plunged over a sixty-foot embank
ment killing Garner and injuring tour
others, including his wife.
The International Institute of Agri'
culture at Rome, Italy, reports that
with harvesting very nearly complet'
ed in most European countries. indi'
cations are that the 1916 worlds
wheat supply will be almost rs per
cent less than last years.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
R. R. PROTESTS HIGHER RATES
Claims Assessment Rate Exceeds
Actual Valuation.

Miles City.-The Northern Pacific
has filed a protest against a raise in
the assessment Of its lands in this
county from $1.69 an acre to 1920. The
road owns 659,047.10 acres in Custer.
Representatives of the company said
the lands were returned at so per cent
of the actual value, which is the Gus
tomary rate throughout the state and
county, and that the company had been
assured this valuation would be ac-
cepted.
The representatives protested that
through the proposed charge the valua'
ton would be more than the actual
value of the land and more than the
land could be sold for.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
HEADS SWEDISH YOUNG
PEOPLES CONFERENCE
Rev. C. D. Swanson Chosen President
at State Convention Held
In Helena.

Helena.-The Rev. C. D. Swanson Of
Missoula was chosen president Of the
Swedish Young Peoples conference Of
Montana and Idaho at the closing ses.
sion of the state convention here. Mrs.
E. M. Shoemaker of Helena was NAM
ed secretary and c. Eastberg Of Idaho
Falls, Idaho, treasurer.
Resolutions favoring statewide pro-
hibition were adopted and the laymen
present pledged their votes to the
proposition when it comes up as a re.
ferendum at the November election.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Apart SO Years; Re-wed.

MISUNDERSTANDING Mcmahon and
Rose e. Taylor again renewed the ro-
of SO years ago when they were
married by the Rev. J. H. Ritz of the
Christian church. Thirty-six years &
this couple we're married in the east
and enjoyed nine years of welded life
with their children, then they were
separated and drifted apart. After
many years, the children grown and
married, Mr.. Mcmahon went for a Wis
1t In Portland, Ore. Here he met his
wifs and rau0wad the courtship
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Guards Pay Regular Rates.

Butte in not a soldiers town, in the
opinion of Maj. c. +. Lloyd, recruit
ing officer stationed here, who adver-
tised for bids on lodging and meals,
but failed to secure al offer from Butte
hotel keepers. The great demand for
rooms and the capacity service of the
city restaurants accounts for the In
difference on the part of the locdl
caterers. thinks the major. There are
three men in the recruiting detail and
generally one or two extra men await
Inw araaxa from fha harAnr
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
HIBERNIANS SELECT BUTTE
State Convention at Great Falls
Elects New Officers.

Great Falls.-Delegates to the state
convention of Hibernians selected
Butte as the biennial convention city
in 1918. Officers were elected as fol-
lows: Joseph e. Mcdonnell of Ana
conda, president; A. P. Quin of Nilsson
L., vice president; M. ]. Roddy of
Great Falls, secretary; James j. Muir
ply of Butte, treasurer; Father Mar
oney Of Choteau, chaplain; Father MI
chael Mccormick of Butte, historian.
Officers of the woman's auxiliary are:
President, Mrs. Mary Johnston of Ana.
conda; secretary, Miss Kate Harring.
ton Of Butte.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Excellent Crops Reported,

Helena.-Crop reports from every
section If the state continue to indi-
cate conditions better than the ten
year average. Bitter Root farmers re-
port a bumper wheat yield, approx
mately that OF 1915. All grain in the
Saco district is doing we'll. Conditions
at Cutbank are generally good, al
though the wheat yield is only average.
Crops about Chester are reported as
the best In sixteen years."
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Hurry Call For Guards.

A hurry-up order for national guards.
men has been sent out to the various
recruiting offices. The telegram, re-
ceived by Corp. Walter Selby of the
Helena station gave no cause for the
action, but urged him to speed up en-
listments, forwarding the men just az
o as suitable transportation a be
provided. The wire stated: Send all
national guard troops in your depart
ment to border as soon as they are
equipped and suitable transportation
rnn be obtained"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A
FEW LINES.
late EVENTS BOILED Down
Personal. Political, Foreign and Other
intelligence Interesting to the
General Readers.
WAR NEWS.

Reports are to the effect that Greek
military authorities have ag ED to
withdraw their troops from eighteen
villages near the frontier.
The German submarine Bremen re-
ported to be proceeding to the United
States, is we'll on its way, according
to a dispatch from Copenhagen.
Both allied wings on the Salonikt
front, where the soldiers of at least
v nations are in battle, are being
bent back by the Bulgarians, accord
ing to London reports.
A report has been received in Ber-
lin by the Nachrichter Zeitung which
says that the German submarine
Deutschland arrived safely at Bremen
from the United States.
Major Norton Mattos, the Portu-
guese minister of war, announced at
Lisbon a few days ago that Portugal
soon will participate in the war, fight
ing on the side of the entente allies.
=
Germany has ordered the Bulgarians
to discontinue their advance into
Greece and to evacuate occupied
Greek territory, fearing Greece will
be drawn into the war, according to
reports.
An Amsterdam newspaper says 1t
learns that General Won Kissing, gov
ernor general of the occupied portions
of Belgium, has RENTED the fine of
$4,000 pounds imposed on Brussels for
celebrating national fete day, July Fl.
The principal improvement in the
larger Zeppelins, in addition to their
great carrying capacity, is their in
creased proof against anti-aircraft
shell fire, according to a German nav
al officer, who commanded a super
Zeppelin in a recent attack on points
in England. y.
The German government has issued
a decree providing for the introduce
ton of meat cards for the whole en-
pire on October 2. The maximum
amount of meat provided for under
the new card system will be 25L
grams (slightly more than half q
pound) weekly.
Herr Won Battocki, president Of the
German Food Regulation board, in ar
interview with a Hungarian journal
list, stated that negotiations are pro
crossing between Berlin and Budapes
with a view to inducing Hungary t.
turn over the surplus of the Hun
garian wheat crop to Germany.
The German commerce submar1n
Deutschland, which left Baltimore
Md, on August !, eluded at leas
eight English warships and a Who'll
feet of American fishing schooner
in the employ of the allies, off tn
Virginia capes, and made her wa
safely to Bremen. During the whol
Journey of 1920 miles the Deutschlan
was submerged only for ITO miles.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
MEXICAN TROUBLE.

A Japanese physician by the name
of Nodko claims to have brought
about the death of Villa by slow poi
soning, given under the guise of med
ical treatment, according to a story
printed in several Chihuahua papers.
The story of a Villa chief with his
own hands cutting off the ears OF
twenty prisoners, who later were
shot, is told by a rescued prisoner in
Ell Democota of Chihuahua City,
copies of which arrived at Ell Paso q
few days ago.
Brigadier General Pershing declared
in a report to Washington that the
general opinion was that VILLAS pres
tige is gone and that he can never
again become a serious factor in Mex.
lean affairs"
Leo S. Rowe, professor of political
economy at the University of Penn
sylvania, who was secretary of the re
cent Pan-American Financial congress,
will be secretary of the American
group of the joint commission which
will seek a solution of Mexican diff
~ficulties.
Carrier pigeons are the latest re
| cruits to the United States army on
! the Mexican border. Fifty 1iers, do
mated by the American Carrier Pigeon
association to the United States sig
nal corps branch at Columbus, are or
hand. 1t is said the recruits are al,
racing birds.
Militiamen encamped along the Dor
der are forbidden to act as press cor
respondents by orders from Genera
Pershing. A number Of guardsmer
who are newspaper men in civil lift
and had been acting as correspond
ents for home papers and other pub
licotions are affected by the new rule
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
HOW MRS. Bean
met The CRISIS
Carried Safely Through Change
of Life by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Nashville, Tenn.-''When / was going
through the Change of Life / had q tu-

as large as q
|child's head. The
doctor said it was
years coming
and gave me medi-
for it until I
called away
the city for
10 o m Q ii me. OF
course I could not
lgo to him then. 30
||my sister-in-law told
llyna that. she Thought
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
INDIANS BELIEVED INFECTED
Suspected Of Spreading Plague at Bill
lns-Animals Slain.

Billings.-Stray cats, dogs and In
dams are suspected Of spreading infan-
tile paralysis and Billings is killing the
animals and has ordered the Crow In.
dams, who flock to the city to strike
their tepees and fit homeward.
Six cases of the plague have just
been discovered among Indians at Pry-
or and the entire Crow reservation
probably will be kept under strict
quarantine for some weeks to come.
Montana reports twenty-one cases of
paralysis and all bit two are in this
section.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Hurt at End of Lonq Journey.

Helena.-After working his way
across country from Illinois as a cir.
u t%ent-pegger, to get to the home of
relatives in the Prickley Pear valley,
this county, Ben Bolt was perhaps IA
tally injured here while doing his last
days work. He fell under a circus
wagon and received injuries which, 1t
is said, will make him a cripple for
life, If he survives.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Bovard Heads Butte District.

Butte.-The most notable change at
the recent conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Livingston, Mont,
was that by which Rev. Charles L.
Bovard, for five years president of the
Montana Wesleyan university at Hell
ena. is made superintendent of the
Butte district. No to DR..
Bovard has been named, but Vice
President Paul M. Adams is in charge
of the university.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Shelley to File as Independent,

Helena.-Oscar P. Shelley, former
Progressive national committeeman,
will file for the state senate as an in
dependent Immediately following the
primary election, according to an an
~nouncement by one of his closest
| friends and advisors.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Elevators Expect s,ooo,o 900 Bushels.

Great Falls.-From seven to eight
million bushels of grain will be han.
died through the Equity grain elevators
in Montana this year, according to A.
H. Freie, grain sales manager. Rep
resentatives Of Equity elevators in
Montana have perfected a marketing
association with headquarters here so
the crops can be handled in big lots
and q better price obtained.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

= ABSENT, CASTS FIRST BALLOT
= HeIena.-WiIIiam S~calion, law
. partner Of United States Senator
r. J. Walsh cast the first ballot
= In Montana's statewide primary,
= August 29. Mr.. ScaIIon, whom
. business called to Michigan, voted
= under the absent voters law.
: . . . . =
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Montana Woman Would Be corone

MONTANA "oH1an Wouio BE coroner.
Kalispell.-Mrs. Nora K. Sherman of
this city has filed as a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for county
oroner. Mrs. Sherman is said to be
the first woman in the United States
to aspire to this Office.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

Yellowstone Park Soldiers to Border.
Livingston.-The $50 United States
soldiers now stationed in the Yellow
stone National park, under Colonel
l.. NJ. Brett, are to be SEN to the Mex
lean border Oct. l, according to ad-
vices received here. Civilian scouts
will be substituted for the soldiers.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
GENERAL.

Helen Chimes, champion Nebraska
PAGER, owned by Schinstock brothers
of West Point, won the $4,000 Hal Nc
Kinney purse at the Great Western
race meet at Omaha.
During September or October Theo-
dore Roosevelt is to make a speaking
tour of Illinois, Indiana and other CEN
trail and western states in behalf of
the republican national ticket.
All the Baltimore city Fairgrounds,
between thirty and forty in number,
were ordered closed by the health au-
thorities as a measure of precaution
to prevent infantile paralysis from
becoming epidemic in Baltimore.
A fire and explosion in a Chicago
Standard Oil company warehouse con-
tanning $4,000 gallons of gasoline and
kerosene, resulted in the death of one
man, and the serious injuring CT
eight others. The damage is estimat
ed at $4,000.
Not since the days Of the civil wal
has hogs brought higher prices thar
that paid on the Chicago stock mar
ket last week when several loads o
norkers sold for $11.30 per hundred
pounds.
A verdict of murder was brought i
NJ Twin Falls, Idaho, by a coroner
Jury. against two boys, brothers' 1
and II years old. respectively, WIN
have confessed to shooting ana XII
ing a manual training teacher Oh ga
son., New, when ne caugh INC oo'
robbing his cabin.
william ]. Bryan will go on
.n.ar,ng tour for President Wilsol
beginning September Is and contin.
,rg until election day, speaking
-. a.stann METEOROLOGICAL
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

Montanan Shares Hetty Green's Estate.
Billings.-E. r. Morton of Miles City,
will receive at least $4,000 as his
share of the estate of Hetty Green of
New York, reputed to have been the
wealthiest woman In the world. The
elder Mr.. Morton was ~distantly related
70 Mrs. Green.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

A bore is a person who has nothing
to do but sit around and visit.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
WASHINGTON.

President Wilson let it be known to
callers recently that he will veto the
immigration bill again if it comes to
him for signature.
Secretary Flanagan of the federal
farm loan board has issued a warning
to farmers that solicitors are busy in
several states without authority of
the board attempting to collect money
for the organization of national farm
loan association.
Investigation of reports from Pan
ANA that a so, 000-acre land con-
cession at the Atlantic end of the
canal is being sought by a Spaniard
named Fernandez, presumably for
Japanese interests, was ordered by
Secretary Lansing.
Secretary Lansing announced that
the American members of the joint
commission to undertake settlement
Of differences between the United
States and Mexico would be Franklin
X. Lane, secretary Of the interior;
Judge George Gray of Wilmington,
Del, and DR.. John r. Mott Of New
York City.
Despite the fact that the cost Of
living has gone up approximately 10
per cent since the outbreak of the
European war, the cost of subsistence
in the navy has decreased u of a
! cent per man this year, as compared
with the fiscal year of 1914.
In an effort to curb artiicially higi
prices for news print paper, Senator
Hitchcock Of Nebraska, democrat, pro
posed an amendment to the revenu,
Dill placing a graduated tax on al
S news print sold for more than $45 :
ton.
A surplus of IS, 200, 900 from the Dos
tai service during the fiscal PEAR END
n ing June 80 was reported to Presiden
uwAs&&slson~hY Postmaster Canarat Rurls
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

Many a man has made a fortune by
not writing poetry.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
Plague Death Rate High.

The mortality rate for infantile para.
lysis in Montana is only 2 per cent
less than it 10 in New York, DIR. W. F.
Cogswell, secretary of the state board
Of health, informed the parents that
were in attendance of the meeting at
the Commercial club in Helena. The
session was held under the auspices of
the Child Welware association and has
for it's object the improvement OF
sanitary conditions in Helena.
In New York the mortality rate was
20 per cent. in Montana 20 per cent
OF the children afflicted with the dis
ease in New York 97.3 per cent were
under the age of 10 years.
So far there have been "a cases OF
~infantile paralysis in Montana this
year, and seven deaths.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

President Wilson let it be known to
callers recently hat he will veto the
immigration bill again if it ONE to
him for signature.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
County Farm Agents Meet.

~SS''hy 'NSS'sS
The county agricultural agents Of
Montana held their s~emi-annual confer
ence at the Montana state college.
The session continued three days.
Those present were: ]. R. Campbell
Of Missoula county; R. A. Blanchard
of Cascade county; Paul Carpenter of
Lewis and Clark county; George E.
Piper of Dawson county; John c. Tay.
lor of Custer county; c. A. Bush of
Flathead county, and Carl H. Peterson
of Fergus county.
The conference was under the i'm.
mediate direction Of M. L. Wilson,
leader of county agents, who was one
of the speakers. Others were Dean
F. B. Linfield of the college Of agri.
culture, and Director F. S. Cooley OF
the extension department.
The first session was addressed by
w. A. Lloyd of Washington, d. c..
representing the federal department OF
agriculture.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01
ASSESSMENTS INCREASED BY AL
MOST TWO MILLION DOLLARS
BY STATE BOARD.
MEN NOT "DAINTIEs" NEEDED
Montana National Guard Commander
Writes Letter In Reply to Inquiry
Narrowing Tales Of Hardshlps De-
eiared FabrIcations-Men Wanted.


Railroads operating in Montana
will pay taxes this year on $S1,oS2,.
os6, as compared with $40, 1s5, 961 last
year an increase Of $1,Ss9,115. This
valuation was fixed by the state
board Of equalization, and il in addition
to the taxes levied on certain property
of the carriers in the counties not as.
sessable by the state board.
While the tabular statement Of the
board shows increases on the main
line of only two roads, the Chicago.
Burlington and Quincy and the Chi.
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul, the
taxes collected will be on an actual
Increase Of $3.50 a mile on main lines,
over the assessment last year.. In
1915 the state board assessed the
block signal systems at the rate OF
$3.50 q mile. The railroads protested
and took the assessment to the su.
preme court, the court holding the
state board could not assess the
block systems. This year the assess.
ments of the main lines Of all the
roads save the two named, is the
same as last year, but not including
the block systems, which are assessed
in each county.
The main line of the Burlington Is
raised from $18,750 to $3.50 and the
main line of the Milwaukee from $1S,
500 to $21,250; the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific the same, and the
Oregon Short Line $22,500.
Il X X
Men Not "Dainties" Needed.
1t is more than probable that there
will be a sudden cessation in the pubs
iication of letters written by some OF
the boys in the Second Montana from
Douglas, Ariz., to friends and parents
In this state.
The stoppage will undoubtedly be
due in large part to a letter which
Col. Donohue recently wrote to A. L.
Smith, secretary Of the Miles City
Chamber Of Commerce, in reply to
one from Mr.. Smith. in which the
secretary asked to know the facts
about the condition and treatment
Of members of Company F, most OF
whom are residents of Miles City.
Letters Published.
There have been a lot Of letters writ
ten to parents and friends of members
Of the Second regiment, which have
been published, in which the writers
have told narrowing tales of the hard
ships suffered.
Col. Donohue writes a most com
plete answer to the inquiries, and II
addition informs the Secretary Smith
and all other commercial organization
in Montana, that what is needed by thu
Second Montana is not dainties, bu
1000 recruits to bring the Second VI
to its full strength, and advises tina
they get busy along the line indicated
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

A surplus of IS, 2OO,O 900 from the pos
tai service during the fiscal year end
ing June 80 was reported to Presiden
~ On hy. Postmaster General Burls
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

william j. Bryan VIII go on q
sneaking tour for President wilson,
beginning September 10 and continu-
,rs until election day, speaking IN
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-01

Reports are to the effect that Greek
military authorities have aged to
withdraw their troops from eighteen
villages near the frontier.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-10-03
Clever.

Bacon-"You say that man is clev-
trg' Egbert-"Clever7 Why. say,
here's hardly n thing he can't do IN
ess it Is, perhaps. cut his own hair