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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-08

Second Ai16sice for NJ. fzavnsr = one
Of VA and we Fot n the Hawner hAnd-
wagon year before NJ and heapsA put
him On the ttckst. So We ought 70 be
concerned IN his behaK land We are
listing for IN enthusiastic endorse
ment Of Mr.. HAvner from the repub-
Leans Of, the Second district, and firm
insistence that Mr.. Harding go way
and leave our candidate alone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-08

Indeed during the middle ages Italy
was known as the graveyard OF Ger
man e1nperors,' recalls the Dubuque
Telegraph Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-08
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

MANY citizens have no other per-
sonality than partisan politics, sayA
the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Deprive
them of that and they would wonder
homeless and forlorn. To them the
party title is dearer than the family
name The American who does not
trace his descent from Thomas Jeffer-
SON will probably claim Alexander
Hamilton as his ancestor"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-08
THIRD FLOOR.

Physicians and Surgeons
Rooms 800 to 3o5. Phone IS for the
following physicians and surgeons:
DR.. NJ. Y. cHESlRE
Or. NELSON MERRILL
DR.. n. ". NICHOLS
DR.. GEORGE IA. JOHNSON
DR.. r. S. GROSSMAN
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02
Legislative Bureau Of
the Montana Newspaper
Associations, Helena

There is new Moses in 'srael
His name is B. G. White and he halls
from Buffalo. He is the man who
is leading the farmers out of the poll
tical wilderness. Officially he is one
of the members of the Fergus county
delegation in the Legislature. Unof-
ficially he is the head of the farmer
movement which is making itself felt
every time there is roll call in the
house of representatives.
White of Buffalo is the outstand-
ing figure of this session of the legis-
lature. He looks like farmer. He
thinks like a lawyer. He talks like a
whirlwind and has the action of a
dynamo. He has a wonderful grasp
of public affairs, and is fluent
speaker. He is possessed of vein
OF humor, too, and when he rises to
speak the house sits up and takes
notice. He talks right out in meet
ing.
There is no nap on the carpet of
the aisle that leads up to the speak
er's dias. There was at the beginning
OF the session, but White has worn
1t all away. When speaking he pa
rades up and down this isle, thunder
ing his pronunciamentos as he pa
rades. The Aouse listens, laughs,
and votes the White way.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02

also will again become a highway OF
commerce. Many boats were sent up
this stream during the Sioux war and
it was down the Yellowstone to its
mouth and thence down the Missouri
to Bismarck, North Dakota, that a
record run was made by the Far
West in 1876 with the first account
of the Custer massacre, which was
to be flashed over the wires to all
parts of the civilized world. The
Far West completed this trip just
54 hours from out the mouth of the
Big Horn. She had covered 71O
miles, laden with wounded men, at
the average rate of 13 II miles an
hour establishing d record never
equaled by any other craft on the
Missouri or it's tributaries. The Vel
lowstone has the advantage over the
upper Missouri of having many more
towns and cities along it's banks and
it is possible that, above Mondak, the
course of the river traffic of the fu-
ture will be up the Yellowstone.
All Europe's Streams Utilized.
Today in western Europe virtually
every stream that is big enough to
float bathtub is crowded with
barges and boats and the headwaters
of all the larger rivers of France
are connected with canals. In Cali
fornia, the Sacramento, which, like
the upper Missouri, is a turbulent
stream, is navigated by steamboats,,
some of which are owned by the
Southern Pacific railroad. Unim-
proved, the Sacramento was even
shallower than the Missouri between
Fort Benton and Mondak. Upon the
Sacramento and it's twin stream, the
San Joaquin, millions have been ex-
pended, but they have saved the far
mprs millions in freight charges be-
sides relieving congestion in the har-
vest season.
The fight for the permanent i'm
provement of the lower Missouri riv-
er as a channel of commerce was be-
gun less than ten years ago by the
merchants of Kansas City and now
during the greater part of the year
the river below this point bristles
with tunnels. These merchants found
powerful interests arrayed against
them, but they succeeded in 1910 in
obtaining the appropriation of ST.
100000 for construction work, but
it was coupled with condition for
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02

He is gentle boss. He can swing
more votes with one of those five
minute talks of his than any other
man who sits there. But sometimes
he startles.
"Mr. Speaker" he thundered the
other day, as he paused in his ora
torical parade, II want to say en-
phatically that those who are under
the impression that the farmers are
here to raise seven different kinds of
hell are wrong"
And when he said the warm word,
he pointed long index finger
straight at Hon. Maggie Hathaway.
The Honorable Maggie probably
thought that the expression was not
ladylike, but she did not bat an eye.
Then he proceeded to talk the
house out of the notion of limiting
the legal rate of interest to eight per
cent. He contended that the small
bank, the oasis of the homesteader,
would be seriously handicapped by
this limitation. He proved his case
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02
White of Buffalo Leads in the House
r; Thinks Like Lawyer; Talks Like Wh;r1,v;nd!

spring, and may not marry unless he
is divorced.
The bill promises to stir uo things
when it comes up for consideration.
1t is strongly endorsed by the Nation
al Federation of Women's Clubs. A
similar measure has been introduced
in the Minnesota legislature.
Senator Amin will introduce a bill
which, if it should become law,
would make the state dry on Decem-
Der 81, year before the time stipu-
lated in the constitutional amend
X
Mrs. Maggie Hathaway, member
from Ravalli and champion OF wom-
en-, would pension all mothers whose
husbands desert them. She has in
troduced a bill to this effect. The
bill also provides that mothers may
receive pension for their children
if their husbands are dead, or are
inmates of any of the Montana in
stitutions.
Senator George McCone of Dawson
county would put little more red
fire into politics. He is the father of
a measure which would amend the
primary law SO as permit of the Sc
lection of candidates for office by
party conventions.
According to the estimate OF Sena-
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02

a second examination of the project
by board of engineers to obtain &C
curate data as to it's cost and possi-
bilities.
Story Retold by Borland.
The story of this fight was retold
in congress last July in a speech de-
livered by William p. Borland, rep
resentatives from Missouri. Mr.. BOr-
land said:
"The business men of Kansas City
left their employment and journeyed
to Washington at their own expense
to lay the facts before the committee
of congress, making every sacrifice
necessary to secure the growth and
prosperity of their city. They be-
lieved, and still believe, that the des-
tiny of Kansas City depends upon our
securing water rates with a success
full method of water transportation;
that we had reached the limit of our
growth as purely inland city; and
that we must be connected up with
the seaboard, the Panama canal, and
the great foreign trade of the world.
''The re-examination of the pro-
ject was favorable, and in 1912 con-
gress formally adopted it and entered
upon the work of carrying out the
engineering plan. Meanwhile, the
Kansas City men, in pursuance of
their promise to congress to restore
navigation, even upon the unim-
proved channel. organized boat line
which has been an assured success.
It is now carrying freight for 80 per
cent of the rail rates, absorbing
switching and marine insurance, and
has grown in public confidence by
the reliability of it's service and the
safety and good order in which it de-
livers freight.
Valuable Land Saved From Ruin.
''The work under the engineering
plan has progressed favorably, al
though not as rapidly as congress
had at first intended, and the boat
line has had to contend with all the
difficulties of navigating an unlm-
proved channel. The banks nave
been revetted for a portion OF the
way to st. Louis. The channel has
been improved; much valuable ag-
ricultural land has been saved from
destruction; Kansas City has provid-
ed itself with a municipal wharf; and
the amount of freight carried by riv-
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02

would make county division an
easier matter. He has intro
duced a bill which fixes the as
sessed valuation of new counties at
$3,000,000, instead of the $5,OOO,-
600 now required, and leaving the
old county $5,000,O00 of assessed
valuation as against the $8,000,000
which the existant law demands. The
present law also stipulates that
county must have 1000 square miles,
while the Oliver measure provides
for an area of not less than 1900
square miles of territory. The bill
also provides for majority vote,
instead of the IS per cent now neces-
sary to change the map Of Montana.
The newspaper men of Helena are
singing of the exploit of 81 Perkins.
The republicans were about to hold
a secret caucus in the ball room of
the Placer. Perkins was assigned to
cover the caucus. How to get a
story of this important meeting was
a problem.
Perkins knew his battle ground,
because nightly, when the lights come
and the music starts, he one-steps
there. About thirty minutes before
the time for calling the caucus to Or
der, and by dint of hard work he
managed to crawl under the orches-
ira platform. The fact that his belt
buckle is not far from his back sus-
pender buttons helped some. He
turned on his electric spark, got out
his pad and pencil and waited.
The caucus convened. The repub
,~;, nn1
family, talked. ST wrote. He got
so enthusiastic about the story he
was getting that he moved his leg.
1t cramped. He had to move it
again. This time the noise of his
moving was heard by Senator Ruben
Dwight, who stopped proceedings and
investigated. ST was hauled out of
his hiding place. He felt like lone
democratic mule in yhe midst of
herd of angry republican elephants.
1t suddenly occurred to him that he
had business elsewhere. He left the
place with no plaudits ringing in his
ears.
The republicans sent committee
to the Independent and demanded an
apology. 1t was not forthcoming.
So in the house and senate the next
day they introduced resolutions bar
ring the Independent representative
from the floor. The resolution car
ried in the senate. where the republi-
cans are in the majority, and an In
dependent reporter, not 81, was
marched down the isle and shown the
door by the dgnifjed sergeant-at-
arms. The twin resolution failed Of
passage in the democratic house by
one vote.
Among the measures which will be
introduced are the following:
A bill providing for the closing of
saloons on Sundays.
bill to COMPEL all flour mills to
accept wheat and grind same into
| flour on custom basis, fixing toll
charges, and providing penalties for
on this basis.
A bill providing for the commits
sion manager form OF government for
cities and towns.
A bill providing for the appropria-
tions of money for the operation of
state fish hatcheries.
A bill providing for the storage OF
flood waters for irrigation.
A bill to increase the salaries of
assessors, and making the office one
of the best salaried places in the var
ious counties.
A bill providing for a system of
voting by mail.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02

cial proposition on the Missouri river
in it's unimproved state. They could
not understand that stream which
apparently had such tremendous
volume of water would in the busiest
months of summer frequently show,
over the wide crossings, a depth OF
only 80 inches or less. 1t was hard
to see why it was impossible for boats
to use any portion of the river unless
sufficient channel was open be-
tween two large shipping centers."
The improvement of the navigabil-
ity of such rivers as the Missouri has
gone hand in hand with reclamation.
Through the Strengthening of the
lower course of the stream and the
Strengthening of the banks by revet-
ments, a vast acreage has been re-
deemed for the production of crops.
Similar results would follow upon
the improvement of the upper
reaches of the river. From Fort
Benton to it's confluence with the
Missouri. army engineers have deter
mined, there is always sufficient wa
ter in the Missouri for navigation
provided occasional shoals and snags
are eliminated, and these will cease to
recur as soon as the channel is
Strengthened and the banks fortified.
The most satisfactory results will be
achieved only with the expenditure
of millions of dollars, but the open
ing of the river to heavy traffic for
the greater part of the year with the
consequent lowering of freight rates
would probably benefit Montana
more than the extension of several
new transcontinental lines through
her territory.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02

where the worlds fair was then be-
ing held.
Come to Montana 20 Years Ago.
While in the "Windy City" he was
offered and accepted a position with
Armour & Company, the big pork
packers, and remained in their en-
ploy for three years, after which
time he resigned his position anl
came to Montana, taking up his resj
dence in Butte, where he has live(
for the last 20 years. He has been
engaged in mining, real estate busi-
ness and farming ever since. Eight
years ago he was elected to the legis-
lature from Silver Bow county and,
although it was his first term as a
member of the general assembly. he
was elected speaker of the house.
Two years later he was again elected
to the legislature and was again
chosen speaker of the house, the only
man in Montana who has ever been
twice speaker.
Nominated by Acclamation.
At the democratic state conven-
tion, held at Great Falls four years
ago, he was nominated by acclama-
ton for the office of lieutenant gov
ernor and was elected. During the
last four years he has presided over
the senate in the thirteenth and
fourteenth legislative assemblies and
he is now presiding for the third
time over that body. He is the only
man in Montana who has ever been
speaker of the house and lieutenant
governor and the only man in the
state who has been twice lieutenant
governor.
The positions of speaker of the
house and president of the senate re-
quire that a man should be an ex-
pert parliamentarian, and the jour-
nails of the last four legislative ses-
sions show that Lieutenant Governor
Mcdowell has never had decision
overruled, either in the senate or in
the house, which is considered an un-
usual record.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02

The railroad freight congestion of
the past year has revived interest
in the improvement of the cOuntry's
waterways for navigation, and in
cluded in this years rivers and har-
bors bill now before congress is an
item appropriating $4,000 for
clearing the channel of the Missouri
from Sioux City to Fort Benton,
Montana, which has been recon-
mended for passage by the house
committee on appropriations. One
of the members of this committee is
announced his intention Of doing his
utmost to have the Sioux City-Fort
Benton item retained in the bill.
With the extension of the railway
lines in the west, traffic on the Mis-
souri, river was almost entirely
abandoned, but within later years
there has been a revival of Missouri
river steamboating that promises to
extend within few years to the up
per reaches of the river-in any
case to Mondak on the eastern bor-
der of Montana, and probably to Fort
Benton.
Work Never Wholly Abandoned.
The government has never wholly
abandoned work on the channel OF
the upper Missouri and recently con-
siderable snagging has been done as
far as Mondak and some even above
that point. In the sixties and seven
ties the Missouri river as far as Fort
Benton was a great highway of COM
merce and government engineers
then reported that with comparative
ly little expense the river could be
kept open for navigation by large
boats for the greater part of the
year. Now with homesteaders set
tling up the country along both
banks and with production or
grain in Montana greater than the
railroads can carry with their present
facilities. the incentive for the res
toration of traffic on the river has
enormously increased and an expen-
diture for improvement that would
not be justified few years ago
would be regarded as fully warranted
today.
Yellowstone Highway in Seventies.
In the earlier days steamboats,
operated on the Yellowstone as far as
the mouth of the Big Horn and there
are many who believe that this river
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02
W. W. MCDOWELL
RECORD BREAKER
ONLY MAN WHO HAS BEEN
TWICE LIEUTENANT GOV.
ERNOR OF STATE.

Also Only One Who Has Served Two
Terms as Speaker of House.; Be-
sides, No One Else Has Served Both
as Speaker and Lieutenant Govern
Or; Never Had Decision Overruled.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02

tor Kane, of the special committee on
taxation and assessments, between
$750,0OO and 100000 additional
revenue must be provided for the
states expenses during the next two
years. The report estimates the total
income for the biennial period to be
$4,13S,171 and the total expendi-
lures s4,592,434, leaving deficit of
$454,263, to which must be added
$326,423 to square the general fund,
and S294,94O, if the chancellor OF
the university gets all the money he
is asking for to take care of extern
sions in Montana's scheme of higher
education.
State Auditor William Keating
takes issue with the senate commit
tee. He says the deficit at the end
OF this appropriation period will not
be more than $4,000. He contends
that the estimates OF the senate COM
mittee are too high.
Senator Oliver of Fallon county
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02

VA ANVSSI 1AOSt ICClSlOn OtCrTulCus
Lieutenant Governor w. w. Nc
DoWell is one of the interesting per-
sonalities in Helena just now. He
was born in Gibson county. Tennes-
see, January %, 1867. His father
served for four years in the civil war
as confederate. While both Nc
Dowelps grandparents were we'll to
do, being large slave owners, the war
broke up the families and his father
was poor man when the war ended.
The lieutenant governor comes
from an old Scotch Presbyterian fam
lily. He lived on a farm and did the
work connected with farmer boys
life until he reached the age of 16
years, when his father moved to the
little town of Union City, Tennessee,
later on moving to Nashville, where,
after completing his college course,
he entered the banking business as
clerk in the Capital City bank of
Nashville. After he had remained
four years the bank was consolidated
with another bank in Nashville, and
young Mcdowell went to Chicago
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-02
Cargoes on Upper Missouri Prospect

err has steadily increased with each
season.
GAS the river became a factor in
transportation problems, the opposi
ton to it increased. Each year we
had fight for a renewal of the ap-
preparation, in face of the fact that
every reason which actuated the orig
iral adoption of the project had
been justified by the progress of
events. The Missouri river stands
today as the one inland waterway
proposition which has more than re-
allied the expectations of it's advo-
Gates The opposition to it has re-
suited in continual holding back
of portions of the appropriation, but
sas City have enthusiastically res
ponded to the call and rushed to the
firing line at the first sign of danger.
Project Bitterly Attacked.
"The end is not yet; for, as the
river further demonstrates it's ability
to serve the commercial interests OF
the west the attacks upon it will be-
come more determined. But each
fight has strengthened the conf
dence of Kansas City in it's project,
and each fight will, l trust, result
as this last has done-in strengthen
ing the position of the river and in
justifying those who advocated its
being among the great channels of
commerce."
When the merchants of Kansas
City first went to congress and asked
for the permanent and businesslike
improvement of the Missouri river
as great artery of commerce they
were met by questions such as would
be fired at delegation from Mon
tana today should it go to Washing
ton and ask for large appropriation
to restore navigation as far up the
river as Mondak or Fort Benton.
where is your commerce?" the
congressman asked. Why have you
no boats on the river? What is the
tonnage now carried by water?"
Congressman Slow to See Light.
Commenting upon this attitude,
Congressman Borland, in speech
in 1914, said:
"It was difficult for congress to
understand the practical impossible
ity of carrying freight as CONNER
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-02-02

Ferdy Schupp. Schupp won six of the
games In the winning streak of the
team and they were among the most
remarkable games ever pitched by
box artist. In these six games Schupp
allowed only 20 hits, or an average of
but little over three to a game. He
allowed Brooklyn two hits September
Z; Cincinnati. three a week later; the
Pirates three September IS; the Cubs.
six September 20; st. Louis, two, Sep
TENDER 20, and Boston one, September
%. In only two of the six games was
he scored on and the total Of runs
chalked up'against him was but three.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-02-02
THOMAS RAISED ON GASOLINE
Won First Medals as Motorcycle
Rider, Graduating to Wheel of
European Racing Cars.

The noted race driver, Rene Thomas,
is the product of Porte Maillot, where
il is said that he was "raised on gaso-
line" His first medals were won as a
motorcycle rider, graduating from this
to the wheel of Europe's racing cars,
and, as a by-product of this, as an
aviator. 1t is said his success is
largely due to his ability as an en-
gineer, as well as a driver, and that
his is the most valuable car in all
Europe. because by listening he can tell
exactly where the trouble is and what
II is. In any kind of automobile. He
has met with several perilous adven-
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-02-02
FEED CATTLE FOR SHIPMENT
Pennsylvania Experiment Station
Recommends Water Be Withheld
Before Shipping.

In preparing cattle for shipment con-
siderable attention should be given to
feeding so as to lower the shrinkage
as much as possible. The Pennsyl-
vania State college agricultural ex-
pertinent station recommends that
water be withheld from animals be-
fore shipping and that they be fed TIM
othy hay and whole oats to prevent
looseness during shipping. Under such
treatment cattle will arrive at the
market in a more attractive appear
ance and will take on a much heavier
fill"