The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-09-21
COUNTIES TO GET
SHARE AUTO TAX
ABOUT 100000 TO BE APPoRTIoN-
ED-41, 900 MACHINES ARE
LICENSED IN STATE
NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY
Frivolous Husbands Stand Little Show
of Exemption.-Helena People
Seeking Dismissal of Colo
mel McGuinness

Helena.-A $60,OOO-25
per cent of the net receipts from the
registration of automobiles-wil short
ly be distributed among the several
counties of the state to be turned into
their road funds. The apportionment
will be based upon the proportion the
receipts from each county bear to the
total receipts. The table is now being
prepared by Secretary of State G. L.
Stewart.
Total receipts from the registration
of automobiles up to the close of Au-
gust were $27S,000. The expense for
the plates, mailing and other items
has been approximately $4,000, leav-
ing a net of about $250000 for i'm
provement of roads in the state.
There are approximately 41,O00 ma
chimes in Montana at present, judging
by the number of applications for Ii
censes. This is expected to amount to
not less than $4,000 by the close of
the season, an increase of nearly lOO
per cent over the automobile regis
trations year ago.
Since Attorney General S. G. Ford
sent out notices to all county attor-
neys directing them to prosecute au-
toists who had failed to register, their
machines, business in Secretary Stew
arts office has shown a marked in
crease. Applications are coming in
at the rate of % and 80 day.
The increase is partly to be account
ed for by the new machines purchased
since the first of August.
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Bounty Claims Fall off
During the three months since the
state livestock commission put into
effect it's system of investigating all
bounty claims, the aggregate of the
claims has slumped $500 over the
total for the same period last year,
according to a compilation made by
D. w. Raymond, secretary of the COM
mission.
The significance of the decrease be-
comes more apparent when it is rea-
lized that the total of the claims filed |
this year, up to the time the inspec- |
ton was begun, was $1,000 in excess
of the total of claims filed for the
same period last year.
Board Raps Gay bubbles
Husbands whose marital obligations
rest upon them so lightly that they
go philandering and joy riding with
other than their spouses, will not re-
ceive the same degree of considera-
ton from the exemption board of Dis
trict No. 1 as those drafted husbands
that walk the straight and narrow
path.
The board has not made any formal
ruling upon the subject, but in dis
cussion that ranged far and wide con-
corning the exemption of married men,
It was intimated that in the consider
alton of dependency claims the gaiety
Of the husbands and the treatment he
accords his wife will be taken into con-
sideration.
Many Want Loans
So many applications for farm loans
ire being received by the state land
office it has been necessary to place
l special man in charge of the depart
nent Frank 2 Sharp, local abstrac-
or, has been named. III. l.. Sherlock,
ease clerk in the land office, has been
appointed assistant state forester to
succeed r. J. Smith, who resigned to
20 to the training camp.
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Increase Phone Assessment
The assessment of telephone and
telegraph companies in Montana has
,een increased by the state board of
The rate for one copper
wire has been increased from $50 to
100 a mile, and iron wire from So to
10 mile. Additional copper wires
will be assessed at S25 mile, the same
IS the old basis.
Will Fill Lake Gradually
Inside of two weeks the gates on
he Hotter dam will be closed and the
Jig reservoir created will be allowed
o fill slowly. To maintain the Great
'alls plants the flow of the Missouri
liver cannot be shut off completely
While the Hotter lake is filling.
1t is said that the Hotter plant will !
e in operation by the first of Novem-
er. 1t will generate 10000 klowatts.
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Lower Hay Rate
The rate on hay from terminal points
4 Minnesota to Helena has been cut
V the Northern Pacific from $11 $
on to S720 a ton, according to adj
ices received by e. S. Richards, gen 6
raj agent.
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Want McGuinness Removed
Leading citizens are behind an agi-
alton looking to the sending of a petit I
on to the war department demanding !,
ne removal on the grounds of unfit =
ess of Colonel J. j. McGuinness Of v
ne Second Montana. d
The matter was precipitated by the p