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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
YANKEE .BLUEJACKETS
ARE FACING ATTACK
Cuban Rebels Turning Back
on Santiago. j

Washington. March 9.-American'
marines and bluejackets occupying
Santiago, recently the stronghold of
the Cuban revolutionists. appear from
latest navy department dispatches to
be facing the possibility of an attack
by the rebel bands waging guerilla
warfare in the city's suburbs.
The dispatches. apparently several
hours behind developments, said the
rebels had turned back after fleeing
the city and were doing considerable
damage around the outskirts in q
movement which showed some signs
of developing a general attack.
A body of Cuban government troops
was reported on it's way ito Santiago
to reinforce the small government gar
rison, however and many officials be-
lieved the rebels would stay out of the
city proper and avoid any clash with
the Americans.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
BRITISH MAY BUY
ENTIRE WHEAT CROP

Ottawa, Ont. March 9.--The British
government is negotiating for the pur-
chase Of the entire 1917 wheat crop of
Canada, it was announced here to-
night,
Sir George Foster, acting prime
minister, has placed the proposal be-
fore western Canadian farmers or
CARNATIONS The plan has been. out
lined TO the presidents of the Western
Grain Growers and the United Farm
ers Of Alberta and they will present it
to their organizations.
1t is understood that the dominion
government will handle the business,
buying from the farmers at a price
satisfactory to them and looking after
transportation to the seaboard.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
Br;bed Seattle Mayor
to Sell Booze at win
Confessed Liquor Dealer in Dry States Teses Against
City Officers and DRY Squad Detectives Minister
Threatened Indictment file Wouldn't Confess

Seattle, March 9.--Logal Billingsley.
confessed liquor seller in prohibition
states and chief witness for the gov
ernmeift in the trial of Mayor Hiram
e. Gill, Chief Of Police Charles T.
Hodge and City Detectives Peyser.
Doom, Poolnan and McLennan testi-
day that DR.. Mark A. Matthews, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church.
threat tened him with indictment by the
county grand jury last November il
he did not come through" with con-
fession that he bribebd Mayor Gill
with $500 to permit him to sell liquor
under police protection. The Defend
ants are accused of violating the in
terstate commerce law.
Bllingsley testified that, after the
threat by DR. Matthews he went at
once to Mayor Gill and asked him If
he regarded DR.. Matthews as his friend
anu tIiil Te1iiEG mat nc Hlu. Bt1I1nPS-
ley testified that he warned Gill that
the clergyman was double crossing"
him and repeated to Gill the threat
that Matthews had made. Gill ac7
cording 10 the witness told him not to
worry about the county grand jury.
because it indicted only little offenders.
"Compromise" With Mayor.
Earlier in the day Billingsley testi-
fled. that in August, 1916. after he had
become involved in n world of trou-
bles,' owing TO the seizure of all his
business correspondence, on July %,
1916, when his drug store was raided
by the police, his lawyer set afoot ne
gotiations with Mayor Gill for "com-
promise" by the terms of which all
prosecution Of Billingsley and his
brothers for selling liquor and for
forging permits to import liquor were
| to be dropped Billingsley said he
clinched the bargain with Gill in the
office of Chief of Police. Rockingham
on August 80 by giving Gill a roll OF
| $4,000 in 500 bills, which Gill rocketed
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
ANTl=S1EEl TRUST
ARGUMENTS begun
Government Says Corpora
ton Produces One-Half
Of Steel and Iron. !
---4 f---
OVER : CAPITALIZATION
Defense Says Competitors.
Are Growing and Help .
in Fixing Prices.
OVER CAPITALIZATION

Washington, March 9.-Thc supreme
court today began consideration Of the
federal dissolution suit against the
United States Steel corporation, its
subsidiaries and officers. Argument
will continue until next Wednesday.
Only seven Of the nine justices are
sitting in the case. Justices Brandeis
and McReynolds retired voluntarily in
accordance with the court custom. The
former. it is understood, did so be-
cause of his public expressions made
before his appointment in writings and
officials Investigations regarding the
so-called steel trust Justice Nc
Reynolds, While attorney general. par
ticipated in the federal prosecution,
which was begun in 1911 during Presi-
dent Taft's administration. In OPEN
ing the governments case. Assistant
Attorney General Todd pictured the
corporation as producing approximate
ly one half of the nations Iron and
steel output and controlling assets of
more than $2.0O0.0OO,0OO. He declared
it was . grossly. over capitalized
combination of combinations, with the
subsidiaries themselves previously
oyer-capitalized. Promoters, he said
received enormous profits, and prices
had violently risen" after the corpor-
alton was formed Is years ago.
Size Not Illegal.
Outlining the defense Richard v.
Lndabury commended that the Sher-
man Law does not prohibit combina-
tions merely for size and power alone.
Proportionate production by the cor
poration he said has decreased to 40.9
per cent since it was organized, while
competition and competitors proper
ton of output have increased. He in
sisted that the corporation has no
mower to dominate the industry.
Mr.. Todd declared that the combina-
tion is still Overwhelmingly prepon-
derant' in virtually all branches Of the
trade, and that the price fixing holding
company was not a normal develop
ment
For the defendants, Mr. Lindabury
insisted that in dismissing the govern
ment's suit, the New Jersey federal
district court of four judges had found
that the combination is not an actual
or attempted monopoly.
Competition between subsidiaries of
the corporation before they were
merged, Mr.. Lindabury asserted was
not extensive. They produced many
nom competitive lines and much of
their production of raw material was
not sold, but was used in manufacture
ing finished products.
THE record shows the most strenu-
| Gus competitions he added 'in the
past and today in. every locality by all
| engaged IN the steel industry"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
RAILROAD WILL REPAY
U. S. FOR TIMBER LOSS
Not to Contest Decision Civ
ing Forest Service
$4,000
CASE is PRECEDENT
Outcome of Legal Battle De-
lights Local Forestry
Officials.
CASE Is PRECEDENT

Solicitor y. f. McGoNan, in charge
of the law office of district No. / Of
the forestry service, yesterday re-
cciNed word from Great Falls that the
case of the service against the Great
Northern railway, which has been
contested in the courts of the state
tor the last few years, has finally been
settled, the railway company having
notified the government that it has
abandoned plans for an appeal and is
ready to pay for the damages. The
case involves damages of $4,000. in
Cured in a forest fire in the Lewis
and Clark forest, caused by the neg
lisoncc of railway employees
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
on the
Spur the
Moment
No ci,ance.

No Chance!
Why do YOU shun me thus. my sweet
Why are you now SO cold and chillye
Is that proper way to treat
Your little Willie?
Heartsiek. despairing will I go
Eat poisoned pills and four or
five II -
End all my woes, for now l know
| have a rival.
There is another now, alack
There is another now you've smitten.
So you have given me the sack
And exc the mitten. ..
And though ! weep a world of tears
You never give the slight thought
oh,
Wretch that / am. For it appears
He has an auto!
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
Gossip.

The best thing about gossip is that
most people are able to make q little
bit of it go long way A small
teaspoonfui sprinkled about will soon
cover whole community In these
days of high prices it is well to use
less or things and make them go fur
tRef, ard it is very easy to do this
with gossip. After bit of gossip has
been handled and picked over till Il
is shop worn it is so horribly disfig
ured that it isn't recognized. So it is
passed around again as something
new. Men do not gossip as much as
women except when they say that
women gossip more than men
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
The Intrepid as Well as Poetic Editor

OUR EDITORIAL PLATFORM
We will speak out, we will be heard
Though all carths' systems crack.
we Will not bate n single word
Nor take a letter back.
we speak the truth, and what care we
For Kissing and for scorn:
While some faint gleamines we can
see
Or freedoms coming morn?
Let liars fear, let towards shrink
Let traitors turn away:
whatever we have dared to think.
Ihat dare We also say.
THE Forest City Iowa, Independent
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10

at once, the Matchmaking papers
seized In the drug store raid being re-
turned to him the same day Bill
ingsley swore that before he had ef-
fected the arrangement with Gill, he
had been retailer. importing barrels
and cases, but afterward he became
wholesaler, importing carload lots and
furnishing goods to retailers in
Seattle.
Money to Detectives.
Asked why he had -telegraphed to
San Francisco asking for shipment of
50 gallon barrels instead of 40 gallon
barrels. Billingsley explained that as
he was obliged to pay $40 for each bar
rel to the water front detective squad,
he saved mony by getting the larger
barrels. He said that when Sergeant
Putnam of the dry squad seized some
of his liquor at a railroad terminal,
Detective Pcyser. one of the defend
ants, warned Putnam against the
seizure.
THAT is Peyser told me he did,"
added Billingsley.
Unusually Careless.
The only time during the day when
Billingsley appeared Inundated was
when he told Of losing his correspond
ence in the police raid He told the
jury it was not his practice to be so
careless, but that morning he brought
the papers fPm a safe place to refer
to some of them.
Late in the afternoon direct eXami-
nation of Billingsley was ended and he
was turned over to the defense for
| cross examination. His record Of
trials and convictions in Oklahoma
was brought 10 immediate ly, but he
replied calmly to all questions. assur-
| ing counsel that their list was far
| from complete. He said he got into
| illegal liquor selling accidentally by
importing bottles for his friends. He
himself had never liked whiskey-that
is, to drink. he added.
| The cross examination was still IN
Progress when court adjourned.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
EIGHT OF GERMAN
CREW FOUND GUILTY

Florence, S, g., March Eight Of
ficers and men of the German Hansa
line freighter Liebenfcls. which began
sinking in Charleston harbor on the
night OF January 81. were found guilty
of sinking the vessel in a navigable
stream, by a jury in. the United States
district court here late today. They
were acquitted. however on one count
charging conspiracy to sink the
steamer,
Captain Johann r. klattenhoff.
master of the Liebenfels, was the only
one of the. indicted men whose trial
was postponed. He is i'll at Charles
ton. N
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
SHELL KILLED WOMAN. il,

London, March 2.---Mrs. Harley, sis
ter of Field Marshal Niscount French,
commander in chief of the home forces.
is dead of wounds received at Monastir,
Serbia. She was in the town with an
ambulance of which she was in charge
when Shell burst near the ambulance.
\ fragment Of the shell struck Mrs.
Harley in the head, killing her instant
~, according TO Reuters dispatch.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10

It's hard to be content with what
appears to be our humble lot We
Aean to paddle in the pond that's
Just little way beyond we're like
the little mule that goes with hay
suspended DER his nose. forgetting
'hat the fairest peach is always lust
beyond our reach. We point to one
"heie life appears to be rcplete with
joins and cheers and sigh that if our
lot was such we'd never moan or
SFnmbic much. And yet we know that
ne IN turn for greater happiness doth
yearn and where's the mortal with the
ease, the wealth and joys that quite
hppease" And should the blessed
fates hestow upon some mortal here
neloW Il dazzling wealth of gems and
2oid nee weep to learn that once Of
Old some other had had somewhat
| more. And so it seems to go. Before
we search for joy it's tough, we know
Wen never get enough.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10

government started suit. and was
awarded damages in the federal court
at Great Falls last fall. The railroad
at that time announced it's intention
of appealing the case, but has decided
that it would be fruitless to contest
the case further Solicitor MCGOWAN
and the United States district attor-
ney acted as prosecutors of the case.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
GARD OF THANKS.

We wish to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation to friends and
for their kindness and synf-
PATTY extended during the illness and
death Of our mother, Margaret Hen
rlkson. We also wish to thank them
for the beautiful floral offerings.
ANNA, MYRTELLE, SOPHIE, Hell
MER, GUSTAV, OLAF AND H. IL
hENRlhsoN- ADV,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
Precedent Established.

The local forestry officials are de-
lighted with the victory, as it is the
biggest ease of it's kind that has been
tried in the state. The result will set
precedent for future cases of like
character. Many inquiries as to- the
case have been received, among them
one from the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way COMPANY
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
625 LOSE LIVES.

London, March 9-The British trans
port Mendi, carrying South African
native laborers. was sunk after COLI
sion on February 81 and 625 persons
lost their lives
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
Brush Fire Got Away.

In 1910. while employees of the rail-
way We're clearing brush off the right
OF way of the road, the fire they had
started broke, loose and caused $50. 900
worth of damage in the national for
ests before it was eAtinguished. The
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
The Hay.

To hit the pace to hit the mark.
To hit the nail, all through the day,
Io, hit the booze, to hit the slide
But Oh, the joy to. hit the hay,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10

Place order. for Cabinet Range be-
fore March goth. and get free gas serv-
ice pipes. THE GAS Co.--A0y.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
Today's Sheer,

Some people would have to have
the asue before they could shake a
log.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10

Stating it mildly. severing .liplo-
matte relations is really q bad break"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-10
THIS Cd Party SIMON McNeH3
Is q dealer IN Leaders and~
Bells
Ara he Lad yoy might say,
Though N mol The Same vaN
llas ar interest IN H,des
prd IN Pc lis. ~

1t doesn't seem fair to object
that the girls in music shows
don / wear enough clothes. In q
recent ono We were able ia conn.
eighteen different costumes per
girl
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
Keen Good Work eolnu.

A young man was being examined by
Delaware county exemption board
as to his qualifications to serve as a
soldier, says the Indianapolis News.
"Any dependents?" he was asked.
"Yep, lots of EN-" was his answer.
Name theni-tell who they are" a
board member suggested.
'Lawse man, can't name them al"
said the one examined. They're all my
wife's relatives. They've been depend
In on me ever since was married"
unless you are more specific than
that we cannot see any ground for ex-
emption," he was advised by the board.
"Who said wanted to be exempted
want them still to be dependents,
but want them to be dependent upor
themselves"
After little further investigation OF
his case he was accepted.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
| DAD[Y'S.,,,. .EiI:IVIIii[!:NINl'
[A|RY TALE
| @ MAQN GRAHAII BONNER
BILLY BEAVER.

'Billy Beaver" said Daddy, "wanted
to build new home for Mrs. Beaver.
"'You know, my DEAR Billy Beaver
had said, we want to be in the fashion
and move. It's the time of moving
everyone moves nowadays. To stay
in the same home for q long, long
time is not considered fashionable
"'Dear me, what smart, up-to-date
beaver you are,' said Mrs. Beaver
proudly.
"'Thank you,' replied Billy Beaver.
But it's really only in the big
cities where they move so much said
Mrs. Beaver. I've heard some of the
men talking who were trying to catch
the beaver COUSINS
ayes said Billy, 1T Is In the big
city, or in any big city should say,
that folks move all the time. In the
country they have the same dear old
homes for many years.
"'Well, maybe said Mrs. Beaver,
they have new dear homes in the
cities
Maybe said Billy. But you know
how many Of the same people we hear
about us all the timer That is be-
cause they don't move
"'But still you think you would like
tor asked Mrs. Beaver.
"'Yes,' said Billy Beaver, 7 do be-
lieve I would
$50 Billy Beaver and Mrs. Beaver
had q nice meal of food-wood before
they set to work on their new home.
"Billy Beaver is one Of the hardest
working animals there is. And he set
right to his job.
"First he made use of some nice
country land and a brook. He used
the sticks which were left after he
had eaten the bark of the wood, and
he began to make a dam.
''You know the beavers are famous
for building dams, canals and all
things built with water, land and
sticks.
"Billy made the dam out of some
good mud and he carried 1t himself to
the spot where he was building, carry
ing 1t always between his paws and
holding II close to him so as not to
lose 1t as he swan along.
"Then he worked over the mud,
making 1t just the height and width he
wanted, and using the sticks too. And
then he made a fine deep brooklet,
which he used as a private driveway
to his new home.
nTIp mOda a haOdSomo homa and Mrc
Beaver thought it was beautiful. He
swan around, using his tail to help
him 60. and asking Mrs. Beaver if she
liked 1t.
"0f course she had to say over and
over again that she thought 1t was a
beautiful home and Billy was finally
quite sure she liked it.
"T always build the entrance to any
home I make said Billy, under the
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
When God Probes.

God loves us too much to let what
would hurt US stay with us. So, be-
cause Of this love, he himself is will
ing to hurt us in order to save US from
the greater hurt. Probing is done in
order to get rid of something that
would injure. And so, as Prebendary
Webster has said: "Do not be afraid
of Gods probing. He never wounds
except to heal. He never'humbles ex-
cept to exalt. Do let God deal with
you; do not be afraid of his probing"
Most of us have been afraid OF it; we
may be dreading 1t just now, We shall
not fear If we remember what kind of
love Is back of It: that all-sacrihcing
love that died for us on the cross. So
we can safely, gladly let ourselves 60
utterly into his hands and ask those
nail-pierced hands to do with us what
they will. Then he can begin to show
us his love as we may never yet have
known the meaning of love.-Sunday
School Pines.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
HAD PIECE OF IRON IN LEG
For Eleven Years Man Carried Sou
Venlr Of San Francisco Earth
! quake About With Him.

Bernard Hughes, who Is seventy
years old and has Travelled the country
exclusively, walked into the dlspen-
aary Of st. Joseph's hospital the other
day and asked for a physician, says the
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Doctor" he informed the surgeon.
I've got a bad pain in my left leg
and want you to do something for It,"
The surgeon took him to one Of the
operating tables and examined his leg.
you've got some sort Of bunch
near your ankle" said the doctor, "and
think you ought to have 1t removed"
"All right" replied Hughes, "dig it
out"
Shortly afterward the surgeon re-
moved a piece of iron about an inch
long and an inch and half wide,
which formed the bunch"
"How In the world did that get In
there?" he asked.
swell, I'll tell you what think, doc,
] was In San Francisco In 1906 when
IT had the earthquake" replied Hughes.
"There was an explosion where 1 lived
and a part of the stove hit me In the
leg. i shouldn't be surprised If that
piece Of iron was part of the stove,
and / guess I've been tOting 1t around
with me ever since"
The missile in these eleven years
had worked its way from the knee to
the ankle.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-09-27
INTERNATIONAL.
SUNDGYSGIOOL
LESSON
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 80
THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY
OF GOD.
fRnuinwl

LESSON TEXT-Daniel 9:3-19.
GOLDEN TEXT-The Lord ts mercifu
and gracious, slow to anger, and plen-
teous in mercy.-Psalms 103:S.
A profitable way to spend the hour
would be to make study Of DaniePs
prayer as recorded in the lesson as
signed for our reading today, and have
the lessons of the quarter as illustra-
tions of the goodness and severity OF
God. Announcement of the plan may
be made the Sunday before, and the
different lessons of the quarter as
signed to different members Of the
class to tell how they bear upon the
topic Of the lesson for this week. A
broad analysis of Daniels prayer is as
follows:
I. Confession Of the Nations Sins
wv. 3:15). The circumstances Of this
prayer were extraordinary. The crisis
was so serious that Daniel sought after
prayer to the Lord with fasting, sack
cloth and ashes. In his confession the
peoples sins are placed In contrast
with Go6s righteousness. He acknowl-
edges that their sorrows and sufferings
Justly belong to them. Daniel, the
holy man against whom there is no
record of wrongdoing, includes himself
with his people.
u. suppIlcatIon for Mercy and For
glveness wv. 1919. He pleads for
Gods anger and fury to turn away, and
his remembrance Of the Holy City and
to oh
was at stake. He confesses that Israel
had no merit, were utterly destitute Of
righteouness, and pleads consideration
on the ground of covenant relationship.
Another way to conduct the review
would be to ask different members Of
the class to report on the different les
sons by giving the vital and central
teaching OF each. The following are
suggested as vital teachings Of the
several lessons:
Lesson l. God is absolutely holy,
therefore those who have been sancti-
fed by fire from the heavenly altar are
qualified for his service.
Lesson 2. He who turns away from
the Lord shall be judged by the Lord.
Lesson 8. In Hezekiah's reformatory
work the Passover Feast was restored,
showing that the only way to get peo-
pie to return to God is to gather them
around the Cross of Christ-the Atone
ment by Blood.
Lesson 4. Though our unfaithfulness
and cowardice have shamefully humili
ated us, we should turn to God in
prayer.
Lesson s. Gods gracious invitation
is extended to all without money and
without price,
Lesson 9. No matter how wicked one
may have been in his apostasy from
God, II he sincerely repents, God will
be found Of him.
Lesson z. Regardless of ones age
and experience, God can use him in
doing mighty work If he will but open
his heart unto him.
Lesson 8. The Word of God found
and read will nightly convict of sin,
and transform ones life and environ
ment.
Lesson 9. Gods predictions as to the
captivity Of Israel were fulfilled to the
letter. Nothing shall fail of that
which God has said he will do.
Lesson 10. Jehovah is the shepherd
| Of captive Israel, and will surely gather
them out from their wanderings and
save them.
Lesson II. One should be unfiinch-
ipgly loyal TO God under all circum-
stances.
Lessons 10 and 13. God is able to de-
liver those who trust him, from fire
and from wild beasts.